Sequel to: Vortex. "Agents Savich and Sherlock are back in the latest installment in Catherine Coulter's #1 New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series, and this time both are enlisted to help women with traumatic pasts who are in mortal danger"--When she was twelve years old, Kirra Mandarian's parents were murdered; she barely escaped with her life. Fourteen years later, a commonwealth attorney back home in Porte Franklin, Virginia, her goal is to find out who killed her parents and why. She turns to Dillon Savich for help, and he brings in Special Agent Griffin Hammersmith to work with Lieutenant Jeter Thorpe, the detective who had saved Kirra years before. Emma Hunt, a piano prodigy and the granddaughter of powerful crime boss Mason Lord, was only six years old when she was abducted, and saved by her adoptive father, San Francisco federal judge Ramsey Hunt. Now a 12-year-old with a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, she narrowly saves herself from a would-be kidnapper at Davies Hall in San Francisco. For her next performance, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Sherlock and officers from METRO are assigned to protect her, but things don't turn out as planned. -- Adapted from jacket.

1. United States. -- Central Intelligence Agency -- Fiction.; 2. Sherlock, Lacey (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.; 3. Savich, Dillon (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.; 4. Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.; 5. Women lawyers -- Fiction.; 6. Undercover operations -- Fiction.; 7. United States. -- Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Officials and employees -- Fiction.; 8. Kidnapping -- Fiction.; 9. Thrillers (Fiction); 10. Detective and mystery fiction.;