When one of her professors ends up dead, college freshman Jenna Blake starts making discoveries even the police have not seen, discoveries that link the late teacher to a dead congressional aide and a terrifying disease. Original.
"Why would anyone want to tear out someone's heart?" That's the very real question facing college freshman Jenna Blake, and it has nothing to do with romance and heartbreak. A second grisly murder mystery is unfolding at Somerset University, and her job as a pathology assistant at the local hospital brings Jenna too close to the haunting crimes. Everyone has a theory on the nature of the killings, including Jenna's older half-brother, Pierce Logan, who's new in town and has some odd ideas about why someone would want to steal a human heart. Meanwhile, Jenna begins working on her own heart when she meets a fascinating older man. But there's little time for dating when the Thief of Hearts declares Somerset the perfect hunting ground -- and someone very close to Jenna is the prey.
While still grieving over the murder of her friend Melody, Jenna Blake attends to another murder--this one also involving ancient ritual killing practices--and finds time for a romance. Original.
A violent crime spree in Somerset and Cambridge turns up suspects who have been dead and buried for a long time. Original.
While home from college for the holidays, Jenna Blake discovers an alarming number of teens in her town have gone on homicidal rampages and Jenna thinks the murders are connected to a self-erasing, bootleg video that alters brain chemistry. Original.
When a chameleon killer on campus is finally caught, he falls down apparently dead, but disappears when no one is looking, and it is up to Jenna Blake to track down this mysterious killer and deal with the racial strife he has caused.
When Jenna and Yoshiko hit Florida for a little fun in the sun during spring break, they become involved in a series of suspicious deaths, each of which prove to have some kind of mutation and had once worked for the government. Original.
When two people suddenly burst into flame with no obvious cause and plenty of eyewitnesses, Jenna Blake and Slick begin to re-evaluate their faith in rational, scientific explanation. Original.
Jenna begins a summer job working at the Boston medical examiner's office and becomes embroiled in the case of a man found drowned in an aquarium tank. Original.
When her father's wedding reception unexpectedly turns into a hotbed of illness and paralysis, Jenna discovers that her college campus has also been infected, forcing her and her forensic team to race against time to identify the virus and find a cure before it's too late. Original.