Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the devastating news that his niece Caroline has been found brutally murdered. Cross vows to hunt down the killer and soon learns that Caroline was mixed up in one of Washington’s wildest scenes. And she was not this killer’s only victim. The hunt for her murderer leads Alex and his girlfriend Detective Brianna Stone to a place where very fantasy is possible. Alex and Bree are soon facing down some very important very protected very dangerous people in levels of society where only one thing is certain - they will do anything to keep their secrets safe. As Cross closes in on the killer he discovers evidence that points to the unimaginable…

Part of the The Alex Cross Series series.