Recovering from a near-fatal shooting and tormented by memories of a world beyond this one Parker has retreated to the small Maine town of Boreas to recover. There he befriends a widow named Ruth Winter and her young daughter Amanda. But Ruth has her secrets. She is hiding from the past and the forces that threaten her have their origins in the Second World War in a town called Lubko and a concentration camp unlike any other. Old atrocities are about to be unearthed and old sinners will kill to hide their sins. Now Parker is about to risk his life to defend a woman he barely knows one who fears him almost as much as she fears those who are coming for her.

Part of the The Charlie Parker Series series.