She's a brilliant young concert pianist. So why is she being stalked by an assassin? With his fishing boat badly in need of repairs he can't afford, Drake Anders accepts a job from a Russian arms dealer. Find the people who abducted his daughter and whatever it is they have that will ruin her. From the deck of a super yacht in the blue waters of the Mediterranean, to a sidewalk café in Marseilles, a plot is hatched to finance an uprising in a Muslim-controlled country in Central Africa and assist an international playboy in need of his father's money to pay off his debts. While far away, in a cheap motel along the beaches of Puerta Vallarta, Anders gets his first clue in his search for those responsible for the abduction of the woman he has been hired to protect. But will Veronika Rostova, the beautiful woman from the steppes of Russia, shrug off her abduction and a South American assassin's bullet and find the strength to live, and once again play before worldwide audiences? And will Drake Anders, who discovers he is also the target of the same gun, find a way to protect them both while trying to turn the tables on the assassin?