Dr. Caroline Glyn is an authority on malignant cells. Carving up hairy creatures in the hunt for cancer-causing genes is a daily routine. As she leaves her daughter Mary at kindergarten, she meets her new friend Krupskaya and her father, an old Russian warhorse from the cold war. The girls could be identical twins. Caroline has no way of knowing that this meeting has been long in the planning.
The events that follow a brutal murder and a supernatural incident set Dr. Caroline Glyn on a merciless path to save her abducted daughter. The mother must use her brilliant mind, clouded by posttraumatic stress, to triumph over mighty government forces.
