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Just trying for a relaxing vacation, Dr. Grace Farrington discovers what might be missing evolutionary DNA from a fisherman's net on the island country of São Tomé and Principe. Later. in a rustic beach cabin with Kurt. their overdue romantic interlude is interrupted with the news that her best friend, Freya, has been arrested for murdering a man in Senator Kincaid's boathouse. Cutting her vacation short, Grace returns to New England and Oyster River Research, where Freya isn't talking. Unfortunately the Kincaid's mysterious "caretaker" was murdered with the same tenth century trimming ax that Freya uses to build her Viking ship reconstructions. Furthermore, although Freya is trying to hide it, this dangerous, blackmailing deadman may have been her son Mac's real father! But even while Grace investigates to prove her friend innocent, she's drawn into another complicated genetic code mystery, this one involving the last Czar of Russia and his missing daughter, Grand Duchess Anastasia.

In this, the third book in the Grace Farrington DNA mystery series, Grace is returning from winning the prestigious Guru award, when she finds Oyster River Harbor Research is being picketed by Anti-Genetic Engineering protestors. Her rival, Dr. Huang Wong, has signed a research grant with a conglomerate run by the handsome, wealthy bachelor Axel Jensen. C.E.O. of Humanity's Harvest, Axel has a reputation for marrying brainy women and is under the impression that his generous contract also includes Grace. Tension is building up with the demonstrators, as Grace and the other researchers start getting anonymous death threats. These threats are ignored until a body is found floating in the Connecticut harbor. Humanity's Harvest tries to cool things off with a December outdoor-in-the-snow bar-be-que, while Grace is hunting for traces of the elusive "food for the Incan Lord God" in the University Museum. In New Haven, she stumbles on to an intriguing DNA puzzle left over from the Conquistadors conquering of Peru. Can even Grace solve it all before the next murder?

Turned down for this year's Nobel Prize, forty-two year old genetics pioneer Grace Farrington is known for her 'Farrington Fusions': sudden understandings that solve intricate DNA mysteries. She is content with her quiet life of work, until she discovers the new Director of ORR is the man who stole her research years ago! Knowing that Dr. Charles Theodore Marshall will be doing his damnest to discredit anyone he considered 'disloyal', she realizes that her position and those of her friends are in jeopardy. Hating Marshall, she wants to run again, instead Grace decides to stay and fight. Unfortunately, when a member of the staff is murdered on the octagon research boat, Grace finds herself chief suspect. She is further implicated when following an1830's witch's Curse of Three, two more people die. While hunting for the murderer, she finds herself becoming romantically entangled with an old money patron and a red necked colleague. Grace must utilize all her scientific reasoning and her eclectic group of friends (researchers, seance buddies, cops, and some other slightly eccentric New Englanders) to solve the Oyster River Harbor murders before she's arrested.