In 1996, Los Angeles Police Detective Danny McGuire investigates the horrific murder of wealthy Andrew Jakes and the brutal beating and rape of his beautiful young wife, Angela. Danny resettles in France and marries, but the murder pattern continues. In England police are faced with the death of older and quite wealthy Piers Henley and the accompanying dreadful attack upon his young wife, Tracey. Then again, the pattern continues in France in 2005 as Didier Anjou is killed and his much younger wife, Irina, brutalized and injured. Finally, in Hong Kong in 2006, wealthy, older Miles Baring is killed, and his lovely young wife Lisa is raped and beaten. Who is behind this series of crimes?

In four cities across the world, four people die violently and mysteriously. The dead share a single crucial link: each was connected to an all-powerful environmental think tank. Two of the victims' widows-accomplished artist Diane Stevens and international supermodel Kelly Harris-may hold the key to their husbands' demise. Terrified for their lives, suspicious of each other, and armed only with their own wits and guile, they must join forces in a nightmare cycle of hunt-and-kill. At stake is the shattering truth about the tragedies that robbed them of the men they loved...and about an awesome conspiracy whose ultimate target is as big as the earth and as close as the air we breathe

Newport, Rhode Island: a world of old money, old names, and sinister secrets. Maggie Holloway, a fashion photographer, goes to visit a woman who had once been her stepmother, but when she arrives, the woman is dead, the victim of a violent robbery. Maggie is stunned when she learns that she's the beneficiary of the will - and even more stunned when she recognizes a pattern of murder in Newport society that will lead the killer straight to her.

Tamara Goodwin has everything she ever wanted and she never has to think about tomorrow. But suddenly her world is turned upside down and she has to leave her glamorous city life for a new one in the country. However, Tamara is soon lonely and longing to return home.
Then a travelling library arrives in the village, bringing with it a mysterious leather-bound book locked with a gold clasp and padlock. What Tamara discovers within its pages takes her breath away and everything starts to change in the most unexpected of ways…

Temperence Brennan wakes up in a concrete block underground and works to figure out how she ended up there. Months earlier and shortly before Christmas, she worked several cases in Chicago and Canada, reluctantly accepting help from Ryan but refusing to allow him access to her heart so to speak. In late January, her work left her with more questions than answers. Still, the seemingly linked killings of elderly Canadian women doesn’t explain why someone is working to sabotage Brennan’s hard work and reputation. And just who would go to such twisted lengths to kill her?