Elizabeth Taylor is a young and promising reporter for The Times, helping a Portland police detective with another tangled mystery investigation. At first glance, her life looks like a Hollywood film: a promising, interesting job, a loving husband. But a new case of mysterious murders flips her worldview, turning inside out the most terrible and hidden fears. And to make it worse, Marcus—an emissary from the Spanish delegation—bursts into her life as an uninvited guest and shamelessly invades her personal space. A man who hides dark secrets and weaves his own intrigues. How is he connected to the investigation and to the deaths that happened in Oregon? The case that will become the meaning of Elizabeth’s existence. A crime that will spark a war. Contains profanity.