Maisie Farnborough has spent most of her life as a commodity.  After her mother’s murder when she was five, she was handed over by her absentee father to a woman who sold her into a human-trafficking ring run by Bernard and Adrienne in rural Minnesota.  For years she is used, logged in green notebooks, and treated as disposable.  At twenty-six,  she finally escapes with the help of her only friend, Kayla.  Kayla smuggles her to Cannon Falls and swears never to reveal her location.  Maisie survives by breaking into empty buildings at night, searching for warmth and safety.  One freezing night she slips into what she believes is an abandoned brick building by the Cannon River.  Hearts collide in the hallway as she makes a desperate attempt to outrun her fate.  Staring down the barrel of a gun - she's got no idea that she's just encountered one of the most-feared operatives from the war in the Middle East.