Against her will, a woman is forced into the FBI's Witness Protection Program and sent to live in an isolated area of the country after witnessing her fiance, who, unbeknownst to her, is connected with the Mafia, commit a crime. Since her finance also shoots at her and believes she is dead, Victoria is frightened of every person she meets in her new home, including the handyman who works around her place. A man she finds herself increasingly drawn to, despite the danger signs that he might be a hit-man hired to kill her for what she saw. By pure luck, Victoria survived her fiance's attempted assassination of her. Now, can she survive her newly made life, where every person she meets represents danger. Tautly plotted, tense and gripping, this suspenseful psychological thriller explores terrain where no one, literally, is who he seems to be. Mistretta's characters struggle with the very meaning of their lives while they try to avoid being murdered. Tightly written, with surprising twists and hairpin turns, the author of Waves of Fate and Return to Cannibury Hill gives us her best novel yet.