Marianna Ursu has always been a fighter. The daughter of a dead dissident, divorced with one daughter, she lives in a small and corrupt Transylvanian town, Tilda in post communist Romania. She receives a smuggled letter from her sister Anka who is trapped in the sex trade in London, Marianna is resolved to find and bring her home.
In London, Marianna infiltrates the traffickers’ world but discovers that Anka is believed dead. She has to kill when her own life is threatened and the far-reaching network of the sordid trafficking world now wants her dead. Desperate for help, Marianna places her trust in Jack Stratton, drawing him into a terrifying world where the police are no longer an option and his employers and the people he admires are not what they claim. Back home, Marianna’s daughter is taken hostage and she must decide between finding Anka or returning home.
Tilda is a town on the brink of collapse and is torn apart by fear and confrontation between those still fighting for liberty and those intent on its suppression yet it is the strength of the human spirit, the bonds of family and the belief that truth and honour still mean something that brings the story to a moving conclusion.
In London, Marianna infiltrates the traffickers’ world but discovers that Anka is believed dead. She has to kill when her own life is threatened and the far-reaching network of the sordid trafficking world now wants her dead. Desperate for help, Marianna places her trust in Jack Stratton, drawing him into a terrifying world where the police are no longer an option and his employers and the people he admires are not what they claim. Back home, Marianna’s daughter is taken hostage and she must decide between finding Anka or returning home.
Tilda is a town on the brink of collapse and is torn apart by fear and confrontation between those still fighting for liberty and those intent on its suppression yet it is the strength of the human spirit, the bonds of family and the belief that truth and honour still mean something that brings the story to a moving conclusion.
