In this brilliant, twisting historical suspense thriller set during World War II, a young war widow is unwittingly drawn into a sinister web of intrigue and murder.
Washington D.C., 1943: Virginia Abrams believed the war had taken all it could from her when her husband was killed in the Philippines. One year later, shes in a dark, unexpected quandarypregnant and on the run to avoid a ruthless political family that wants to erase all connections between her and the man who assaulted her.
Changing her name, Virginia moves to Seattle to start over. Against her better instincts, shes pulled into the lives of her new neighbors in an apartment complexespecially Tim, a young boy whose mother dies suddenly in a fall. Virginia fears that her whereabouts have been discovered and she was the intended target . . .
But there are secrets between the residents toostormy affairs, mysterious visitors, whispers and rumors. Tim is convinced there are saboteurs among them, hiding in plain sight. Virginia wants to discount his teenage imagination and her own rising paranoia, yet theres something menacing here . . .
Torn between wanting to help the boy and safeguarding her anonymity, Virginia tentatively begins piecing the puzzle together with the help of some of her neighbors. But now others are dying in an escalating series of accidents. No one is entirely who they seem to be. No one can be trusted. And though she doesnt know it yet, her own life is hanging by the thinnest thread . . .
