title: In Their Footsteps & Thief of Hearts
author:  Tess Gerritsen 
description: Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen is a graduate of Stanford University and went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her M.D. Since 1987, her books have been translated into 37 languages, and more than 25 million copies have been sold around the world. She has received the Nero Wolfe Award and the Rita Award, and she was a finalist for the Edgar award. Now retired from medicine, she writes full time. She lives in Maine.
zlib_text: **Table of Contents**
  
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    * Copyright
    * Prologue
    * Chapter One
    * Chapter Two
    * Chapter Three
    * Chapter Four
    * Chapter Five
    * Chapter Six
    * Chapter Seven
    * Chapter Eight
    * Chapter Nine
    * Chapter Ten
    * Chapter Eleven
    * Chapter Twelve
    * Chapter Thirteen
    * Chapter Fourteen
    * Chapter Fifteen
    * About the Author
  
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  CALL AFTER MIDNIGHT
  
  UNDER THE KNIFE
  
  IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS
  
  PRESUMED GUILTY
  
  NEVER SAY DIE
  
  MURDER & MAYHEM
  
   **TESS**  
   **GERRITSEN**
  
  This work was first published as _Thief of Hearts_  
   __ by Harlequin Enterprises Limited in 1995.
  
   **DID YOU PURCHASE THIS BOOK WITHOUT A COVER?**
  
  If you did, you should be aware it is **stolen property** as it was  
  reported _unsold and destroyed_ by a retailer. Neither the author nor  
  the publisher has received any payment for this book.
  
   _All the characters in this book have no existence outside the imagination of