When Elise Friedmanâs mother died suddenly on Eliseâs eighth birthday, any hope of unlocking her mysterious past died with her. Raised by her adoptive father, Elise has spent years trying to learn the truth about her mother, Catrina, and the life Catrina left behind when she emigrated to America. Now a young woman in college, Elise travels to her motherâs homeland of Germany to unearth the truth. Accompanied by her motherâs close friend, Addison, and a cocky young globe-trotter she meets in Berlin, Elise is finally getting close to the truthâand to the same evil that once ensnared her mother.