In the middle of a starlit night a young, raven-haired woman drops back into the cover of darkness as a light flashes above her head in sync with a sharp burst of gunfire. She didn't know why anyone would want to kill her ... she only knew they did. She didn't know who they were; she didn't know who she was, or where she was from or how she came to be in that cold, damp, dark place. But, even more terrifying, she didn't know if she deserved to be killed. With her memory gone, the only thing she had left was the will to survive. And, even that they tried to take from her. Born on a slimy mud bank, deep in the heart of Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin, the swamp became her mother and a panther her protector ...