Adventure has always been in fourteen-year-old Tory Brennan's blood. After all, she is the niece of world-famous forensi... (more)
Adventure has always been in fourteen-year-old Tory Brennan's blood. After all, she is the niece of world-famous forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. So when she moves to the middle of nowhere Morris Island, South Carolina, to live with a marine biologist dad she's never known, Tory does the best she can to adjust to her new life. There she meets a group of local kids who are just as "Sci-phile" as she is -- science geeks who've grown up exploring the backwoods marshlands of nearby Loggerhead Island. But there's something strange going on at the Loggerhead Research Institute ... maybe even something deadly. (less)