For the second time in his short life, Teddy Clock has survived a massacre. Two years ago, his entire family was slaughtered. Now, at 14, in a hideous echo of the past, Teddy is the lone survivor of his foster family’s mass murder.
When detective Jane Rizzoli is put on the case, she spirits Teddy away to the Evensong boarding school, a sanctuary for young victims of violent crime. But when she meets Will Yablonski and Claire Ward, students whose pasts bear a shocking resemblance to Teddy’s, it becomes clear that a predator has more than one victim in mind.
Joining forces with medical examiner Maura Isles, Jane is determined to keep these orphans safe from harm and put an end to an obsessed killer’s twisted scheme.