Keeping secrets and lying—also takes skill. Both become a habit, almost like a ruinous addiction that is incredibly hard to overcome even when dealing with very close people.
Bridgid Quinn is fifty-nine years old. From her former job at the FBI she still has memories she would very much like to get rid of, and combat-training skills she never wants to use again. Sent into retirement, Bridgid carefully convinces herself that she has arranged a wonderful life in Tucson—with her husband and two dogs.
But the past interferes: a man named Floyd Lynch confesses to the most horrifying unsolved case in Bridgid’s career—the disappearance and possible murder of her young trainee, Jessica. Of that terrible night Floyd tells details that were never made public.
What was supposed to become Bridgid’s final dark chapter turns out differently: the FBI agent working on the case, Laura Coleman, considers Floyd’s confession a fake, and Bridgid will have to plunge back into the world of violence…