Eve Duncan is back in a life and death adventure that begins in a well-guarded hospital room in Carmel, California, and ends explosively on a remote mountaintop in the Scottish highlands.  Change is on the horizon for Eve and her beloved Joe Quinn, intensifying the danger that surrounds them and the young girl they’ve sworn to protect, Cara Delaney.  With Cara’s enemies on the move, Eve can’t stay in hospital, no matter what the doctors say.  

Her protective instincts in full gear, she decides that their best chance of survival is to get out of the country and she turns to her daughter Jane MacGuire for a creative solution.  For years Jane has been avoiding an inevitable quest, to find a treasure thought to be buried in Scotland.  But she has finally succumbed to the pressure of John MacDuff to track it down.  

Eve and Cara join her in the remote mountains, but soon realise that nowhere is far enough away from the ruthless enemies who are in pursuit.  An emotionally intense story of greed and power, of mothers and daughters, and the bonds of blood and honour that tie them together, and keep them apart.