A woman is reading in her flat in a town in the north of England. Her daughter is asleep in her bedroom. Sasha Zulaska has lived here for nearly seven years. Away from Poland. Away from her career as an undercover police officer. Away from the drink that nearly destroyed her. Most of all, away from the father of her child.
It only takes one phone call for her past to come crashing back into her life, and despite her best efforts to avoid it, Sasha is soon back in Poland, investigating a murder with connections to the local mafia, to the church, to the recent, turbulent history of her country, to her own past. Ultimately, Sasha Zulaska must question everything she thinks she knows if she is to have any chance of survival.