They call it the Grief Shop. It's the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for Massachusetts, and Tally Whyte is the director of its Grief Assistance Program. She lives with death every day, counseling families of homicide victims. But now death is striking close to home-Tally finds an old friend murdered, and the circumstances are disturbingly strange. Even more disturbing, the next death Tally must confront may be her own. Boston is being terrorized by a killer known as the Harvester, and many of the victims are people that Tally knows. There's a connection, Tally realizes, a link that only she can find. And she'd better find it fast. With each kill, the Harvester is getting closer to Tally.