Criminal Minds meets Bones Four skeletons in a mass grave. Who will be next? Loner homicide detective, Hunter Markum, tries to remain detached when he sees the pile of bones, but something inside him snaps. His missing sister could be one of them. His only hope of learning their identities is to team up with Dr. Kerry Herlihy, a forensic anthropologist. As much as he works to keep his distance, something about her compassion strikes a chord with him. As the attraction ignites between them, their quest to find the killer soon reveals the identities of the victims. But that puts Kerry right in the path of the killer. In a race against the clock, Hunter must apprehend the murderer if he hopes to save the woman he loves once she's BURIED ALIVE.

Where Criminal Minds meets Bones. Dead bodies, left in plain sight, are sometimes the hardest to find. When Dr. Lara Romano, a profoundly deaf forensic anthropologist, first examines the exhumed skeletons of two Native American men buried in Tampa, she has no idea she's caught the eye of a serial killer. Missing Persons detective Trevor Kinsey needs a high profile case to land him a job in Homicide. Though he suspects the attractive rookie scientist, Dr. Romano, may hinder his success, he believes the cadavers in her investigation are linked to his current case—eight missing men, all Native Americans, all believed to be dead. Both are determined to find evidence that will lead the police to the killer's doorstep. What they don't expect is to lose their hearts to each other in the process, nor end up as the killer's next targets. Publisher's note: This book, and the rest of the series was reedited. It had been written under the pen name of Tia Mason.