She's desperate, alone, and unprotected. But she will survive.

Homeless, broke, and broken, Eaven Alexander strives to resurrect her life. Her degrees in historical architecture and antiques attract a lucrative but questionable job offer to locate an important document for the mysterious Greg Sault.

The hunt takes her inside a decaying mansion and into conflict with Clayton Mercer, a town heavyweight and Greg's enemy. Too late, she realizes that something insidious is lurking beneath Astoria's idyllic façade. And that no one is who they claim to be.