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.
When his family attends a reunion in Louisiana, eleven-year-old Ray learns about his Creole roots and about the circumstances that have kept him from ever meeting his father's father.
