• Lisa Black is a latent print examiner for the Cape Coral, Florida, police department and a former forensic scientist with the Cleveland coroner’s office. She has testified in more than forty-five homicide trials.

• The author’s first novel, Takeover, received enormous support from such acclaimed authors as Ridley Pearson, Tess Gerritsen, Peter Abrahams, and Dr. Bill Bass. Harper paperbacks will publish the mass market edition in July 2009.

Cleveland forensic investigator Theresa MacLean hasn’t been the same since the death of her fiancé, Paul, in a bank robbery gone wrong eight months ago. Now a difficult case has arrived at her lab, an investigation that just might be what she needs to pull her out of her funk by demanding all her skill, intelligence, and attention.

Jillian Perry has been found dead in the frozen woods, leaving behind a husband of three weeks and a five-month-old daughter. The police aren’t sure just how she died, but the leading theory is that she chose an icy suicide. But Theresa doesn't buy it, and won't let the case go before looking into every possible angle.

To complicate matters, Jillian’s former boyfriend unexpectedly petitions for the custody of her baby daughter. He also suspects Jillian’s death was murder, and he believes the baby may be in danger, too. With the life of an innocent child at stake, Theresa must find the evidence to prove her suspicions—evidence that doesn’t seem to exist—before it's too late.