A serial killer is targeting vulnerable organ donors with seemingly no rhyme or reason, and Rachel is locked in a furious race against time to find the connection between the murders and stop him before he strikes again.
FBI Special Agent Rachel Gift is among the FBI's most brilliant agents at hunting down serial killers. She plans on doing this forever—until she discovers she has months left to live. Determined to go down fighting, and to keep her diagnosis a secret, Rachel faces her own mortality while trying to save other's lives. But how long can she go until she collapses under the weight of it all?
FBI Agent Rachel Gift, 33, unparalleled for her ability to enter the minds of serial killers, is a rising star in the Behavioral Crimes Unit—until a routine doctor visit reveals she has but a few months left to live.
Not wishing to burden others with her pain, Rachel decides, agonizing as it is, not to tell anyone—not even her boss, her partner, her husband, or her seven-year-old daughter. She wants to go down fighting, and to take as many serial killers with her as she can.When a series of different organ donors are murdered, Rachel is determined to track down the killer. But Rachel herself is faltering, beginning to succumb to her illness. Can she keep it together long enough to catch this killer before her own death? And can she keep her own demons—and her own traumatic past—at bay?
A riveting and chilling crime thriller featuring a brilliant and flailing FBI agent, the Rachel Gift series is an unputdownable mystery, packed with suspense, twists and shocking secrets, propelled by a page-turning pace that will keep you bleary-eyed late into the night.