When a high school track star from a sleepy Tennessee town trips over a disembodied, bloody arm on a local running trail, Pageant County is thrown into a frenzy. The agents from the FBI's elite Special Crimes Unit are called in to uncover the mystery behind this brutal crime. As the body count rises, the corpses in the woods point to an evil so sinister it may not be human. Kay Hooper's mix of harrowing suspense, nonstop action, and extrasensory crime solving will keep readers at the edge of their seats. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper takes us to the outer reaches of fear in Blood Ties, as the Special Crimes Unit is targeted by a monster intent on destroying both Noah Bishop and his people. A series of grisly murders has left a trail of blood across three states, bringing the Special Crimes Unit to a small Tennessee town. There, two more brutal killings lure Noah Bishop and the SCU into what may be the ultimate trap, and lead Special Agent Hollis Templeton into a dangerous attraction-and a serial murder investigation that turns very, very personal. In her time with the SCU, Hollis has shown an uncanny ability to survive even the deadliest attacks. But what she can't know is that this killer intends to destroy the team from within. As the body count climbs, and Bishop and his agents race to uncover the true identity of their enemy, not even their special senses can warn them just how bloody, and how terrifyingly close, the truth will be.