Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast is forced to accept the demands of new leadership in the New York FBI office: now the famous lone agent must work with a partner. Pendergast and his new assistant, Coldman, head to Miami Beach, where a string of unimaginable murders takes place. The killer’s calling card is shocking—he cuts out the hearts of his victims and leaves them, along with cryptic letters, on the graves of women who committed suicide ten years earlier. Is there a connection between all these deaths? What drives the bloodthirsty psychopath? Trying to answer these questions, Pendergast and Coldman have no idea what incredible circumstances will soon unfold during the investigation—completely changing the picture of the crime and making even seasoned investigators shudder…