All was quiet on the corporate jet as Vladimir tried to form a plan to tell his pregnant wife he was going back to Afghanistan on a short assignment for the CIA. When he looked at his radiant wife sleeping he found himself thinking about family in general. He knew that he had a missing niece somewhere, and it was long past time to find her. In Cincinnati, Varnie (Vlad's niece) is planning how to escape from the abusive foster home she had been thrown into. She knows her mother had been born in Sitka Alaska and that she would have relatives there. That was where she was going one way or the other. While Vlad and Jim are in a war zone, Vlad has a detective looking for his niece. At the same time, Varnie, Lance and Holly (two children she couldn't leave in the foster home) are working their way across the United States. They become enmeshed in underworld manipulations that lead to a problem only Vlad and Jim can fix. Dealing with international intrigue, and the mysteries of the seedy underworld of Seattle, Vlad and Jim will have to rescue the orphans and save Varnie. 'Read it started in Sitka' to find out how Vlad and Jim deal with these new challenges. This is the third book in the Vlad and Jim action/adventure series