The quiet, sleepy resort town of Tranquille—its very name speaks of calmness… But why does every 50 years the town’s next young generation burst into fury? Evil isn’t in nature; it’s in people. And again, as always with Tess Gerritsen, a woman enters the fight against evil—a doctor, Claire Elliot.
Saving her own son from death, she fights for the lives of all the young residents of Tranquille, and maybe not only theirs…