Frank Grady

75,000 years ago, he saved humanity from extinction, but Mia Wolfe isn’t grateful.

In this second book in the Mia Wolfe series, Mia has left the CIA and is now a private detective in New York City in search of a serial killer. She soon discovers that the serial killer is Matt Warlow, an ageless vampire who has been living among humans and working in law enforcement ever since humans crawled from their caves. She also discovers that vampires are the missing link in human evolution and that Matt saved humanity from extinction after the Toba super volcano erupted 75,000 years ago, triggering a 1,000-year winter. Yet, far from being grateful, Mia intends to kill him because he killed her best friend.

Daniel Cole is a 27-year-old musical genius whose extraordinary auditory memory allows him to hear patterns others can’t. All he wants is to finally move out of his parents’ house and into his own place, but his non-normative demeanor has an alienating effect on the people he encounters. Instead, he is labeled a “Freak” and accused of a string of burglaries at real estate open houses. With his entire future in jeopardy, he sets out to clear his name, enlisting his only friend, a mechanic with a criminal past, to assist him. But when Daniel’s unconventional investigative style, enhanced by his auditory memory and perfect pitch, uncovers otherwise overlooked musical clues, he unwittingly exposes an underbelly of corruption in the seemingly idyllic town. And with each new revelation, another body turns up, with Daniel always implicated as the prime suspect.

Enter Nat Gilliam, the small-town cop tasked with the investigation. An outsider to the community himself, Gilliam empathizes with Daniel’s struggles against the judgmental villagers. Still, he can’t eliminate Daniel as a suspect. Alongside a local journalist with her own outsider status, their investigations crisscross and finally converge with the realization that Daniel’s auditory memory holds the key to unlocking the town’s sordid secrets and solving four murders.

A young, beautiful CIA computer whiz is bored with her desk job at the American embassy in Kampala, Uganda, and has turned to a life of excessive drinking and one-night stands. All that changes after she saves the life of the American ambassador and is given the assignment of finding the world’s most powerful nuclear bomb which has been stolen by a Russian colonel. Soon she not only has all the excitement she can handle, and a torrid romance, but one hundred million dollars she intends to keep.