by Stephen White

New Orleans prosecutor Kirsten Lord is forced to enter WITSEC, the U.S. Marshals' witness security program, when her husband is assassinated and her daughter is targeted by a drug kingpin Lord put away. She begins a new life in Boulder, Colorado, under the name Peyton Francis. But she shares information about her real identity with an endearing fellow WITSEC participant, mafioso Carl Luppo, and inexorably finds herself drawn out of hiding into dangerous circumstances.