These cases bring out the best in Cassie’s ability to profile the killer and sometimes even the victim, but they also have an emotional toll.

Much of Cassie’s motivation stems from guilt for having failed her mother in some way. Hunting serial killers means the stakes are always high and sometimes they become personal. What I’ve enjoyed most about Barnes’s series is how well she balances plot and character development. The hunt for answers will brings Cassie closer to her mother, but will also bring her and her team into the crosshairs of a group of killers who will do anything to keep their secrets buried. Cassie will do anything to find the people who have kept her mother captive all these years including going toe to toe with a dangerous organization of serial killers who’ve be wreaking havoc across the country for decades. But the past refuses to let go and Cassie’s world is once again turned upside down when she discovers her mother is alive. Years later, recruited by the FBI to be a part of a team of gifted teens that assist in the investigation of unsolved murders, Cassie has forged a new kind of family for herself. Cassie Hobbes’s world turned upside down with her mother’s gruesome murder. Jennifer Lynn Barnes’s The Naturals series coalesces into a thrilling conclusion with Bad Blood. “The smell of burning flesh never really leaves you. The bodies begin piling up, the deaths hit closer and closer to home, and it soon becomes apparent that this time, the Naturals aren’t just hunting serial killers. As Cassie and the team work to uncover the secrets of a group that has been killing in secret for generations, they find themselves racing a ticking clock. Her mother is alive, and the people holding her captive are more powerful-and dangerous-than anything the Naturals have faced so far. But now, everything Cassie thought she knew about what happened that night has been called into question. “When Cassie Hobbes joined the FBI’s Naturals program, she had one goal: uncover the truth about her mother’s murder.

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