Tempe Brennan regains consciousness and discovers that she is bound, hands to feet, in a very small, very dark, very cold place. She begins, slowly, to remember. A forensic colleague - through incompetence or design - has sabotaged Tempe's work in the laboratory on the remains of a murdered heiress.

"Includes a conversation with Kathy Reichs and an excerpt from Spider Bones, her new Tempe Brennan novel."