On the eve of her eighteenth birthday, Danielle Hoad's obsession to avenge her father's abandonment of her and her mother in Vietnam leads to the bizarre death of a United States senator's son in a posh New York City hotel room. Danielle did not intend for the man to die, but she must escape-and maybe she would someday find her father. Relentlessly pursued by Julian Bono, a retired New York City detective, Danielle catapults down a twisted path of terror and romance from the Bronx slums to Louisiana's Gulf Coast to the college town of Austin, Texas, to Houston's uppercrust society where she is confronted with a decision that will forever alter her life.