For a Florida detective racing against time, the murder of famous criminologist Andrew Steele and the disappearance of Steele's beautiful wife will test everything he has ever believed and everything he knows about logic, police work, and scientific truth. For when Detective Sheppard meets the woman who made the call to his office, he soon realizes that bookstore owner Mira Morales holds the key not only to the murder and disappearance, but to a realm of conspiracy and violence that is greater than anything Sheppard is prepared to face.

Fifteen years ago, seven people were recruited into Project Delphi and trained in the deadly use of psychokinesis. From the beginning, the project spun out of control -- and was used as a weapon of terror against U.S. citizens themselves. Now, Delphi is unraveling. Of the seven original members of a psychic swat team, only three are alive. And one of them is determined to survive -- at any cost.