The media has a nickname for Marnie Baranuik, though she’d rather they didn’t; they call her the Great White Shark, a rare dual-talented forensic psychic. Twice-Touched with the Blue Sense-which gives her the capability to feel the emotions of others, and read impressions left out on objects-Marnie also offers a doctorate in preternatural biology and a working knowledge of the dark arts. She is considered without peer in the psychic community.

After that her first big FBI case ended with a bullet in one about Touched shoulder and a chip in the other, a queasy heart and a serial killer in the wind, departing her a public flop and an exclusive wreck. When the FBI’s preternatural crimes unit tracks her down at a remote mountain lodge for her insight on an area case, her silent retirement is promptly besieged with a stab-happy starlet, a rampaging ghoul, and a vampire-hunting jackass in limited Wranglers. Marnie figures really the only mystery is which one will kill her first.

As well mean to die young, supported by friends in cold areas, and running with a mouth area mainly because demure like a cannon’s blast, Marnie Baranuik is going to discover that there’s no such thing simply because quitting time if you are Touched.