Kay Willingham led a life as glamorous as it was public, she was a gorgeous Georgia town socialite, a philanthropist and the ex-wife of the vice president. So why will she parked in a Bentley convertible behind a DC private school, in the middle of the night, with the man who has the head of the school? Who shot them both, point blank, and why? The shocking double homicide is blazed across the internet, tv, newspapers, and Alex Cross mind. Willingham had been his patient once. And maybe more. While John Sampson investigates the murdered educator, detective Alex Cross and FBI special agent Ed Mahoney find questions from willingham's early years in alabama. There they land in the world of trouble, corruption, and secrets. The harder the investigators push, the more resistance they find. Alex Cross will need to use all his skills as a doctor, a detective, and a family man to prevent that resistance from turning lethal ...again