The Naturals are a group of teens who work for the FBI. \u00a0They each have some remarkable skill that is helpful in finding criminals.<\/p>\n
Cassie: \u00a0protagonist, a profiler. \u00a0When she was young, she came upon her mother’s blood spattered closet, but no body. \u00a0She has always assumed her mother was murdered, but at the end of Book 3, we learn her mother is alive and is somehow part of the cult described in this book. Cassie is in a relationship with Dean, which annoys Michael. \u00a0Her father is in the military, so she had been living with her very Italian grandmother Nonna when the FBI recruited her for the Naturals program.<\/p>\n
Dean: also a profiler. His father was a serial killer, now in prison.<\/p>\n
Michael: \u00a0can read emotions on someone’s face. \u00a0He was abused by his father, who tries to make up for it by giving Michael loads of money.<\/p>\n
Lia: \u00a0can tell if someone is lying. \u00a0Biting and sarcastic. \u00a0We don’t know much about her backstory, except that she lived on the streets. \u00a0Periodically has a thing with Michael. \u00a0Thinks of Dean as her brother.<\/p>\n
Sloane: \u00a0gifted with math, numbers and patterns. She’s socially awkward, yet endearing. \u00a0In book 3, she helps figure out the pattern of a series of murders–they follow the Fibonacci sequence and spiral. \u00a0The book is set at a casino in Las Vegas which is owned by her biological father and brother. \u00a0She is extremely thrown off by this, although her brother does reach out to her. \u00a0Sadly, he is the 4th victim.<\/p>\n
Briggs and Sterling: \u00a0the two FBI agents who run the Naturals program. In book 1, Agent Locke was in charge, but she turned out to be the killer, and also the sister of Cassie’s presumed dead mom.<\/p>\n
Judd: former Marine, in charge of keeping the teens safe. \u00a0His daughter, Scarlett, was a victim of the serial killer called Nightshade.<\/p>\n
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Book 3 highlights<\/p>\n
At the start of the book, Cassie learns that a body has been found, and early tests indicate it is her mother. \u00a0She doens’t have time to deal with this because the team is sent to Vegas to deal with a series of murders. After Sloane figures out the pattern of these murders, she and the team discover that there have been crimes happening for over 100 years that feature the same pattern. \u00a0They determine that some kind of long lived cult is involved. The number Nine is somehow important, and it seems there is a child (called Nine) who will be important to the cult. \u00a0They also figure out that Nightshade’s crimes were part of this series. \u00a0At the end of the book, they find the child called “Nine”(or Laurel) and Cassie learns that\u00a0Laurel’s mother is also Cassie’s mother, leading Cassie to believe her mother is somehow alive after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Naturals are a group of teens who work for the FBI. \u00a0They each have some remarkable skill that is helpful in finding criminals. Cassie: \u00a0protagonist, a profiler. \u00a0When she was young, she came upon her mother’s blood spattered closet, but no body. \u00a0She has always assumed her mother was murdered, but at the end … Continue reading The Naturals series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes<\/span>