M emphis Police Detective Angela Harwell and her partner, Officer Danny Sullivan, had never seen anything like the kind of injuries that were discovered during murder victim Maria Todd's autopsy. And when Rebecca Bramlett reported that her daughter, Jessica, was missing soon after, Harwell and Sullivan suspected they may be related. Even if they weren't, finding her became a top priority for them. Jessica was suffering from a rare heart condition so grave that she was on a transplant list. What they didn't know was, in a secluded home in small town Oakland, Tennessee, Dr. Victor Steel was conducting research he was certain would change the world, but so far had only made his girls, or his "Studies" as he called them, sacrifices. He hired Robert Clayton, under false pretenses, to help him find more. Clayton was well paid, but once he discovered what was really happening, the money no longer mattered. The problem was, Jessica Bramlett was already in Steel's laboratory. But what Steel didn't know was that Jessica Bramlett wasn't like any other Study. Furthermore, Clayton didn't like being used. Time was quickly running out for Jessica. And with every minute that passed, the possibility that she would not be found in time became more and more real. Harwell knew it. But it seemed there was little she could do about it.
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