by Jay Bonansinga

The brilliant and tormented FBI profiler Ulysses Grove retires and moves to the country to recuperate and forget. The following spring, a hurricane hits the Gulf Coast. The death toll is devastating. Among the dead is Grove’s dear friend from Book One, the eccentric Tulane University Professor Moses De Lourde, who has become almost like a father to Grove. Grove is heart sick, but when he goes down south to pay his last respects, he discovers a bizarre aspect to De Lourde’s death. The gruesome sharp-trauma injuries, which were thought caused by the violent storm, actually match the style of unsolved ritual killings that Grove has been obsessively studying over the years. Haunted by visions, as well as mysterious entries in DeLourde’s journals, Grove is drawn back into a macabre series of events that lead him to a stunning conclusion: There is an entity—perhaps an individual or a cult—periodically performing human sacrifices in the eyes of hurricanes. Once again, Grove finds himself ridiculed by the authorities, laughed at, ostracized…until he is driven to physically enter the eye of the next hurricane himself. But what he ultimately finds there—with his rag tag group of colleagues in that terrifying surreal space inside the eye—is as unexpected as it is horrifying.