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Dr. Tempe Brennan is called to Tennesee to the scene of the crash of an airliner that killed 88 people. As the medical teams work to reassemble and identify bodies, Tempe makes a disturbing discovery of a foot that doesn't belong to any of the victims. Something sinister is going on, and Tempe must unravel the mystery to save her reputation.

In the bitter cold of a Montreal winter, Temperance Brennan is digging for a corpse buried more than a century ago. Although Tempe thrives on such enigmas from the past, it's a chain of contemporary deaths and disappearances that has seized her attention, and she alone is ideally placed to make a chilling connection among the seemingly unrelated events. At the crime scene, at the morgue, and in the lab, Tempe probes a mystery that sweeps from a deadly...

Emily Anne Toussant, nine years old, is shot dead on a Montreal street. A North Carolina teen disappears and parts of her skeleton are found hundreds of miles away. For forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan, the deaths act as a catalyst, propelling her deep into the culture of outlaw motorcycle gangs where one misstep could bring disaster.