The latest gripping Temperance Brennan thriller from world-class forensic anthropologist, Kathy Reichs, no.1 bestselling author of Break No Bones and Bones to Ashes. An underground chamber is exposed in a seedy, dilapidated house revealing a ritualistic display: a human skull rests on a cauldron, surrounded by slain chickens and bizarre figurines. Called to the scene is forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan. The skull belongs to young, black female. But how did she die? And when? When another headless corpse is discovered, carved with Satanic, the truth Temperance eventually uncovers proves more shocking than even she could have imagined.