A New York Times Bestselling Author When the Charlotte, police discover the body of a teenage girl along a desolate stretch of two-lane North Carolina highway, Temperance Brennan fears the worst. The girl's body shows signs of foul play. Inside her purse police find the ID card of prominent local businessman John-Henry Story, who dies in a horrific flea market fire months earlier. Was the girl an illegal immigrant turning tricks? Was she murdered?