Harper Connelly was struck by lightning as a teenager, and now she canfind the dead. In her third case, Harper and Tolliver, her stepbrother,are hired to find a missing grandson. But the truth is far worse than asingle dead child, for numerous teenage boys, all unlikely runaways, havedisappeared from Doraville, North Carolina. Harper soon finds the eightbodies, buried in the half-frozen ground, but then, still reeling fromcoming into contact with her first serial killer, she is attacked andinjured. Now she and Tolliver have no choice but to stay in Doravillewhile she recovers, and as she reluctantly becomes part of theinvestigation, she learns more than she cares to about the dark mysteriesand long-hidden secrets of the town: knowledge that makes her the mostlikely person to be next to end up in an ice-cold grave.