Ava Saunders's memories are the things nightmares are made of. Only three years old when her mother was murdered and her father disappeared, Ava's been living to avenge the past-and eliminating anyone who comes between her and the truth. Off the grid and on the run, Ava has fled the United States on a willful mission: To seek out those who adopted her and find the blood relatives who abandoned her. Whatever the risk. To do it, Ava needs the help of the only two people she can trust with her secrets: Detective Russell Bowers and her reluctant best friend, Joanne. Together they set off on a journey down Ava's dark and twisted history that reaches from Italy to the jungles of Vietnam and to Paris for a chilling family reunion and a final reckoning. For Ava, as a lifetime of betrayal, murder, and revenge comes full circle, even redemption comes with a price.