From the New York Times bestselling author comes a gritty, riveting
tale of modern crime, featuring a female FBI agent embroiled in a
Russian human trafficking case.
Chicago Special Agent Annie Marino examines the case of a dead young
woman who possesses a tattoo Annie has come across before―that of bloody
bear claws. Several deceased women with the tattoo have turned up over
the past few years, all suspected of being involved in a vast human
trafficking operation.
Annie's neighborhood friend, Jason Ward, is a young writer engaged to be
married into an upper-class family from a posh Chicago suburb. Jason
believes his future brother-in-law, a war veteran, is definitely a
bully―but does he also have ties to the Russian mob?
Yana Kravec, a woman from St. Petersburg, Russia, has been fraudulently
lured into a trafficking scheme and thrown into a horrid and seemingly
hopeless situation. She is, however, determined to fight back and escape
her captors.
Annie's investigation eventually uncovers a sordid plot of procuring
slaves overseas and marketing them in the US. Her interests soon
coincide with those of Jason and Yana, bringing the trio together to
fight against a deadly network of criminals. As the separate lives of
these characters collide, their paths ultimately converge in a night of
terror and survival in a Michigan forest, where they become the prey of
evil men who will stop at nothing to protect their secrets.
