#1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb presents the 5th thrilling book in her futuristic In Death series-where even in an age of cutting-edge technology, older beliefs expire hard.

Conducting a top secret investigation into the death of the fellow police officer has Lieutenant Eve Dallas treading on dangerous surface. She must put professional ethics before personal loyalties. However when a useless body is positioned outside her house, Eve takes the warning personally. With her husband, Roarke, viewing her every move, Eve is usually drawn in to the most harmful case of her career. Every step she requires makes her query her own values of right and wrong-and brings her closer to a confrontation with humanity’s most seductive form of wicked…