Tess McGregor is a reluctant psychic. She really wants nothing to do with it. It’s an annoyance, and people think you are weird at best; sometimes scary. She’d much rather just be left alone in her small professor’s office in the archaeology department at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. But - things have a way of getting complicated. When the head of the FBI’s daughter gets kidnapped and their agents have no leads, it's time to call in their last hope. Tess quickly get sucked down the rabbit’s hole in a whirlwind of FBI high-tech wizardry, a much-too-close call with evil, and a twisted psychopath who is all too good at covering his tracks...unless you are a psychic—who finds herself in the middle of jurisdictional warfare, dizzying plot twists, and a charming Southern town reluctant to give up its secrets.
By chapter three I was hooked. The characters are believable and well defined. The plot is riveting. But, what really kept me enthralled ( a slave to the story), was the author’s use of scene switching at pivotal moments. She kept the intensity equal between the switches. She didn’t switch from an important high intensity thread to a slower paced less important thread. She kept the threads at the same intensity, so, although I wanted to know what happened to the thread I’d just left I was equally interested I the thread I was now reading. Brilliant!!!