After bringing Jason Gideon back onto the scene, Hotch finds a fresh-out-of-college psychology genius who holds a soft spot for animals.
Her name is Dr. Kiera Parsons, a new forensic chemist who has an imbedded fatal flaw, her empathy.
How will she work with the BAU if she can't control how she feels others emotions, when she has trouble with her own?
A mysterious girl decides to call the BAU for help on something that she has been struggling with for the past eight years. Will they be able to solve her life-threatening problem? Or will she simply have to face the thing she had hoped to avoid. Death.