Betrayed by a faithless husband, a former mentor, and a government, Louisa Shidler learns that there is no limit to betrayal's reach - and no limit to what she must do to survive it.
As the action moves relently from Washington to the medieval heart of Geneva, from Dubai to the American mid-West, it becomes evident that Shidler is merely a pawn in a vast international conspiracy. But when the pawns refuse to fall, the bigger pieces begin to topple . . .