A forensic sculptor is locked in a deadly duel with a serial killer determined to destroy her one life at a time. Eve Duncan's job is to put a face on the faceless victims of violent crimes. Her work not only comforts their survivors; but helps catch their killers. But there is another, more personal reason that Eve Duncan is driven to do the kind of work she does;a dark nightmare from a past she can never bury. And as she works on the skull of a newly discovered victim, that past is about to return all over again.
Grayson Guillory--fearing both a genetic disposition for mental illness and the possible existence of darker family secrets--suspects her charismatic governor father of having conspired to kill her manic-depressive mother.
Examines Chopin's writings exploring the historical, literary, and cultural contexts within which her stories occur and her visionary use of bilingual and bicultural perspectives of characters.
