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Catherine "Cat" Ferry is a forensic odontologist, a specialist in bite marks and the clues they provide. Her latest case involves a disturbing murder in New Orleans. When another victim dies in the same shocking way-raising fears that a serial killer is at large--Cat blacks out over the victim's mutilated corpse. Suspended from the FBI task force, plagued by nightmares, and at odds with her married lover, Cat finally reaches her breaking point. She retreats to her hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, but her family's secluded antebellum estate provides no sanctuary. When some of Cat's forensic chemicals are spilled in her childhood bedroom, two bloody footprints are revealed. Cat's father was murdered when she was eight years old, but she always believed the crime occurred in the garden outside their home. When she attempts a forensic reconstruction of the decades-old crime, both she and the FBI realize that the murders occurring now in New Orleans are intimately bound up with Cat's family and her past.
