After battling an enemy far worse than many of those she's faced during her career as a photojournalist covering hotspots around the world, Harper Harris finds herself back in Sierra Leone during an Ebola outbreak that brings death straight to her door. In the course of twelve hours on her last night in the country, she saves an orphaned girl, shares drinks with Nessa Gallager, an enigmatic Irish woman who is not who she seems, and is interrogated by Ron Sumner, a jaded British intelligence agent whose half-truths are as dangerous as the murderer who killed two other hotel guests as Harper lay sleeping. Her journalistic curiosity piqued, Harper's never-ending pursuit of a story leads her to Guatemala, where the violent legacy of that country's civil war and the genocide of several hundred thousand of its citizens lingers just below the surface. What follows is a trajectory of retribution, intrigue, and betrayal that entangles all of the actors in a bloody set piece with tragic consequences that will change the course of Harper's life and the lives of those around her forever.