Thinking she is about to die, Phoebe Rivers says a mental goodbye to her children. Petrel, a stranger, helps her fend off and kill the assailants who savagely beat and rape her. Her disappearing hero turns out to be the long-dead proprietor of a speakeasy from the 1920's. She awakens alone and injured, but thinking she is a murderess, she tells no one about the attack, not even her husband, David. Her life quickly unravels, her children are in mortal...