State Of Mind

When violent cases spew across the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, they are called in to find what local law enforcement cannot: the pattern beneath the chaos.

Unit Chief Brendon Urie, the youngest unit chief ever, leads a team built for psychological warfare-profilers, field agents, analysts, and investigators trained to understand the most dangerous minds in the country. But every case leaves traces, and every profile comes at a cost.

Special Agent Fiona Ford, the youngest profiler on the team, is known for her precision. She sees structure where others see disorder-patterns in behavior, in language, in absence. It's a skill that makes her invaluable in the field, and increasingly difficult to separate from her own life.

As the BAU moves from one investigation to the next, the line between observation and implication begins to blur. Each case reveals something about the people they're hunting-and something about the people doing the hunting.

Meanwhile, buried connections between Fiona, her brother Bennett Ford, and a past they thought they understood begin to surface in ways no profile can fully explain.

In a world built on understanding the minds of others, the greatest risk may be what happens when they are forced to confront their own.

Because every mind has a pattern.
And every pattern can be broken.