This novel is about a twenty-something young woman (Sam) who goes off to college and marries the man of her dreams, only to fi nd out later that he is an international hit man. She is initially outraged by his clandestine profession, but ultimately becomes trapped in the marriage by love for him and her own sincere belief that she can eventually change him. After graduating from college, her husband is mysteriously killed, and his family seems to blame her. A month later her parents are killed in an auto accident that she believes was perpetrated by her husbands family. She is forced to leave her

hometown for fear she may be next. Sam takes refuge in Crown City where she can hide while formulating a plan for self-defense. In Crown City she attempts to reconfigure her life, but encounters multiple threatening situations, unlikely in such a peaceful city.

Her constant fear that her husbands family will discover her whereabouts finally occurs, only to present our imperfect heroine the means out of her precarious existence. Overcoming obstacles thrust upon her, stresses her to the breaking point, but ultimately her strength and cunning enable her to win freedom from fear and a chance for a normal life.

You will find Sam to be an interesting and resourceful young woman. Travel with her as she immerses herself in the fabric of Crown City, and share vicariously her struggles to overcome the treacherous events that follow her husbands death. Her story is a gripping personal evolution filled with love, violence, forgiveness, confession, death, and life-changing philosophical deliberations. Does her emotionally and physically perilous journey lead to a fitting resolution of her dilemma? You be the judge.