Reichs, Kathy

"Tory and her comrades must track a new pack of rogue Virals who have brought on the attention of a shadowy government organization intent on learning the secret to their powers"--Provided by publisher.

When the Virals find a hidden geocache bearing an ornate puzzle box, Sheldon decodes the cipher inside learning that there is a second, even greater geocache left by the Gamemaster. Things take a nasty turn when Tory locates the second box. Once opened, this geocache houses a fake bomb and a sinister proposal. Dystopia.

Fifteen-year-old Tory and her "viral" friends, who contracted heightened, wolflike senses during an experiment gone wrong, investigate an abduction case and make some troubling new discoveries about their powers.

Tory and her comrades must track a new pack of rogue Virals who have brought on the attention of a shadowy government organization intent on learning the secret to their powers.

"A collection of four short stories based on the Virals series that gives further glimpses of the Virals' world as they work with Tory's famous great aunt, Temperance Brennan, to solve more mysteries, take [a] look at where it all started before they became Virals, and get to the bottom of an attempted sabotage at Kit and Whitney's wedding"--Provided by publisher.

Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan wakes to find herself tied up in a small, dark, enclosed space and tries to think back over her most recent activities--accompanying the remains of a missing heiress from Montreal to the Chicago morgue, and battling an accusation of mishandling an autopsy--in an attempt to figure out where she is and who is responsible.

"The latest from Kathy Reichs finds Tempe Brennan investigating the connections between a long-dead business man, the smuggling of mummified dogs from Peru, and the death of a teenage girl killed in a hit and run. When she discovers a human trafficking enterprise at the center of it all, the scope of the case extends from South America to Afghanistan. And Tempe's soon-to-be ex might have connections that run to the very heart of the trafficking ring"--Provided by publisher.

Tempe Brennan teams up with Detective "Skinny" Slidell to investigate when the decomposed body of a young woman is found floating in a river that fits the description of a missing graduate student, Edith Blankenship, whose eco-activism may have gotten her killed.

Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan's plans for a long-overdue vacation with her boyfriend are delayed by somemysterious bones, a plane crash, and her daughter's new relationship.