When Melika awoke on her seventeenth birthday, she had no idea her life was about to change forever. By sundown she had lost her family, her home, her innocence, and very nearly her life. A victim of a genocidal Serbian regime, she makes her way to America as a refugee. Plagued by nightmares that she hides from her American husband, Jeremy, she attempts to build a new life for herself. But is there a darker secret she's hiding? Years later, after his mother's sickbed confession that she gave his sister up for adoption at birth, Andrei embarks on a mission he hopes will quell his own nightmares and fulfill his mother's plea for redemption, by finding the girl once known as Katya.