Now in mass market through the bestselling writer, forensic anthropologist, and producer from the FOX television hit Bones-the riveting #1 NY Situations bestselling Temperance Brennan novel.

In a house under renovation in Charlotte, NEW YORK, a plumber discovers a forgotten cellar, and some rather grisly remains-the severed head of the teenage girl, several decapitated chickens, and a couple of cauldrons containing beads, feathers, bones, and other relics of religious ceremonies. In a river not far away, a teenager boy’s torso carved using a pentagram, is found. Are these offences the task of Satanists and devil worshippers?

Nothing is crystal clear, neither when the deaths occurred, nor where. Was the skull brought to the cellar or was the lady murdered there? As Temperance Brennan is called directly into investigate, resident vigilantes intent on the witch hunt are led with a preacher flipped politician, searching for revenge.