

So were Michael, Dean, Sloane, Lia, and Celine. To the outside world, Mackenzie is nothing more than a traumatized child. It doesn't take Cassie long to realize that Mackenzie isn't bluffing: she truly is convinced that the suicides are murder, and she really will jump if she can't get the FBI to believe her. unless the FBI agents who rescued her from a kidnapper at age six come to hear her out. Desperate to make herself heard, she stands at the top of a lighthouse, threatening to jump. Mackenzie McBride, age twelve, thinks differently.

When their latest case brings back a ghost from their past, Cassie and the other Naturals find themselves racing against the clock-and reliving their own childhood traumas.In a small, coastal town in Maine, there has been a rash of teen suicides-or at least, that's what the police believe. As a unit, they're responsible for identifying new Naturals-and solving particularly impossible cases. Now twenty-three years old, she and her fellow Naturals have taken over running the program that taught them everything they know. Caught in a lethal game of cat and mouse with a killer, the Naturals are going to have to use all of their gifts just to survive.Cassie Hobbes has been working with the FBI since she was a teenager. And when a new killer strikes, danger looms closer than Cassie could ever have imagined. Soon, it becomes clear that no one in the Naturals program is what they seem. Brooding Dean shares Cassie’s gift for profiling, but keeps her at arm’s length. Sarcastic, privileged Michael has a knack for reading emotions, which he uses to get inside Cassie’s head-and under her skin. What Cassie doesn’t realize is that there’s more at risk than a few unsolved homicides-especially when she’s sent to live with a group of teens whose gifts are as unusual as her own. That is, until the FBI come knocking: they’ve begun a classified program that uses exceptional teenagers to crack infamous cold cases, and they need Cassie. But it’s not a skill that she’s ever taken seriously. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell you who you are and what you want. Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people. The Naturals (The Naturals ) By Jennifer Lynn Barnes
