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A specialist in geo-spatial intelligence and crime-mapping techniques, Patrick Bowers is trailing a ritualistic killer who patterns his gory handiwork after a medieval manuscript. Although Bowers can predict how and where the next victims will die, he isn't quite sure about the who or the when. Yet as disturbing evidence accumulates, one conclusion is clear: Bowers could become the centerpiece of the killer's next masterpiece--and time is running out.

Vietnam verteran Allen Carmichael has lived on the fringe of society since the war, rescuing abused children from hostile environments and placing them with foster families. Now in California, he comes to the aid of 12-year-old Jamie, who is being tormented by his entrepreneur father. Allen abducts Jamie from his home and takes him to a waiting family in Montana. But as Allen continues investigating the boy's tragic background, he realizes that everyone involved may be in danger.

Professor Anne Waverly teaches religious studies at a respected university. Occasionally, she works for the FBI. As Ana Wakefield, an eager seeker of higher truths, she infiltrates cults. Her assignment is to investigate a group called Change. As Ana gathers information, she is pulled toward a fiery confrontation with the charismatic leader of the cult.

Rough-and-tumble hero Walt Longmire has his hands full as greedy land developers employ shady, violent methods to reverse their fortunes in recession-racked Wyoming.

The roving park ranger and amateur detective Anna Pigeon investigates a case on Isle Royale. Amidst its barren landscape, a group of researchers observe a group of ravenous wolves. But a killer is on the loose as well, and only Anna can halt his murderous designs.

Fleeing New York to find refuge as a ranger in remote West Texas, Anna Pigeon stumbles into a web of violence and murder when fellow park ranger Sheila Drury is mysteriously killed.

As soon as she hears her older sister is gravely ill, Anna rushes to the Big Apple to sit at her bedside. Between hospital visits, she relaxes at the park service quarters on Liberty Island and explores the crumbling ruins of Ellis Island where thousands of immigrants once were processed. Rest escapes her, however, when a teenage girl mysteriously plunges to her death from the Statue of Liberty--and Anna herself suffers a dangerous tumble. The Park Service claims the falls could only be accidents, but Anna wonders if there is a common purpose behind them.

Park Ranger Anna Pigeon has been assigned to historic Mt. Locust, an old plantation and inn on Mississippi's Natchez Trace Parkway which is now a tourist spot. Looking forward to seeing the wildlife of the area, the last thing she expects to find is a corpse in one of the inn's bedrooms.

Anna's new post is temporary supervisory ranger in the obscure Dry Tortugas National Park. It seems to be a tropical paradise, yet all is not innocent on the islands. An exploding boat, the discovery of unidentifiable body parts, and the emergence of secrets both past and present put Anna's life in danger.

While vacationing in Big Bend National Park, roving park ranger Anna Pigeon and her new husband find themselves sucked into a riptide of danger and intrigue that surges from the Mexican desert to the Texas governor's mansion.