His briefing never mentioned the dead man.
Finland, 2010. CIA technical support officer Daniel Mercer expects four days on the Russian border: repair a communications link, test it, go home. His marriage is already strained by a life he cannot share. Anni, his hosts' daughter, makes him want to stay.
But the village has learned to keep quiet. Men are dying across the border. A house burns in the night. Someone is cutting family marks into living pines, adding dates that have not yet come.
When a threatened Russian source needs a way out, the authorized route fails. Daniel believes he can help. It will mean crossing into Russia without permission-and drawing the people who have welcomed him into the danger with him.
His assignment will end. This will still be their home.
