Evelyn Hill enjoys a life most would envy. With a beautiful home in the suburbs of Cleveland, a loving husband, two wonderful children and a successful career, she feels pleasantly content with life. One day her upscale, suburban lifestyle and sense of contentment is brought to a screeching halt, sending her life spiraling down into the dark world of teenage domestic violence. Her daughter's relationship with an abusive boyfriend forces Evelyn to face the fact that her world as she knew it would be changed forever. Sitting at the hospital beside of her daughter, who is teetering on the edge of death, her desperate need to save her child from imminent demise, leads her to a familiar stranger, Blake Walker, Blake Walker is a police detective, who doubles as a vigilante hit man, helping innocent women in the community fight abusers who refuse to stop until they kill. By a chance encounter, the two develop a relationship based on murder. With her husband dead from a heart attack Evelyn is left alone, facing a problem that is foreign to her and could be potentially fatal. She feels lost, never having any involvement with such danger. Thinking that their plot to murder her daughter's abuser went successfully undetected, they laid low until enough time passed. Eventually, they emerged from under a cloak of secrecy; feeling comfortable knowing they had completed their mission. Unbeknown to them, their secret did not go undetected by Blake's co-worker, Detective Smith. Detective Smith was a fanatical in his resolve to provide justice for the murder victim. Making a daring escape to Athens, Greece the pair's secret brings them closer than either had anticipated. In this nail-biting mystery Vanessa Collier reveals the depths of a mother's love and the journey she willingly took to save the life of her child.