Part One: Islands: Chapters 1 - 5 Summary

Virals by Kathy Reichs is a fictional account of a group of adolescents who stumble onto the decades old murder of Katherine Heaton. Katherine was a young student who was attempting to create a project that centered on endangered species. As luck would have it, she discovers a colony of eagles living on Cole Island, but her discovery is not welcomed by all. The owners of Cole Island register her presence there and before she is able to tell anyone her amazing discovery, she is killed and her body buried on Loggerhead Island - a research facility. As Tory Brennan unravels the mystery, she takes herself and her friends deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole.

Tory carefully cleans the shells she picked up earlier, waiting for her ride to Folly Beach who appeared to...