The other members of Ninth Life suspect she was betrayed by someone within their own ranks, and murdered because of what she learned. The director of Living World has made vehement public denials that his company is experimenting on animals for product development. Sean Macklin has just been paroled. This particular man, the personification of everything Caitlin holds evil, is the reason she left the Crown Prosecutor's office years ago to ply her lonely and demanding profession. Falling under the spell of the alluring Diana, vulnerable as never before, facing the menace of Sean Macklin, Caitlin must be strong as never before.
Lives depend on it.
Jonna must see her. But the person who gets off the little seaplane from Vancouver is not the woman Caitlin loved more than twenty years ago, but her daughter, Jory. My mom is dead. The police find no body. And suspect only ten your-old Jory's overactive imagination.