Karin Sommers finally escaped the grifter's life of her childhood. Now she lives as her sister Ellen, working Ellen's small subsidence farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains and hiding from her past while she ponders her future. But Ellen unwittingly witnessed a terrible crime, and now that moment has come back to haunt Karin—complete with investigator Dave Hunter, a man of unrelenting persistence driven to save a kidnapped child. Suddenly Karin is a fugitive again—but she's not done fighting for her new life. Because Karin Sommers has a past, all right—and she knows how to use it. Even against the one man she's beginning to trust.