For years, Karin Slaughter has been tantalizing us with bits and pieces of Will Trents history. Followers of Slaughters popular series know that Will is an agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. He is dyslexic, scarred physically and psychologically from years in an orphanage and on the streets, and barely made it out of his hellish childhood intact. An ill-advised marriage to a fellow orphan, Angie, has brought Will additional misery. Even though he is still Angies husband, Will has fallen for pediatrician Sara Linton; Sara cares for him, as well, but she wonders if she can truly be close to a man who has so much emotional baggage. Slaughters audience knows Sara intimately as a beautiful and brilliant physician and medical examiner who played a prominent role in earlier books.