When her estranged father dies and her brother is arrested for the murder, crime novelist Tamsin Hope is forced to return to the home she fled a decade ago, and a small town steeped in secrets.

Two Mossad agents pose as a married couple seeking to foster a nine-year-old Lebanese boy. The child is their gateway to recruit his mother; a woman deeply embedded in Hezbollah’s organization.

Three unsuccessful robbers led by Max, fleeing from gangsters after a failed robbery of money-laundering center in Kyiv, hide under the guise of volunteers in a provincial orphanage where Max grew up.

In modern Almaty, a gifted young shaman from a women-only healing dynasty must choose between preserving her inherited power or claiming a life of her own.