seventeenyearold cassie is a natural at reading people piecing together the tiniest details she can tell you who you are and what you want but its not a skill that shes ever taken seriously that is until the fbi come knocking theyve begun a classified program that uses exceptional teenagers to crack infamous cold cases and they need cassiewhat cassie doesnt realize is that theres more at risk than a few unsolved homicidesespecially when shes sent to live with a group of teens whose gifts are as unusual as her own sarcastic privileged michael has a knack for reading emotions which he uses to get inside cassies headand under her skin brooding dean shares cassies gift for profiling but keeps her at arms lengthsoon it becomes clear that no one in the naturals program is what they seem and when a new killer strikes danger looms closer than cassie could ever have imagined 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