Three strangers scattered across the world become entangled in a terrorist plot of global proportions in "this well-crafted and timely thriller" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

An aid worker who lost her husband and child in a brutal attack saves the life of an American contractor in Iraq. Believing he can help her avenge her family's deaths, she follows him back home to the United States . . .

Meanwhile, a California soccer mom arrives to pick up her son from school, only to discover that her husband has taken their child and vanished without a trace . . .

An off-duty cop in the Rocky Mountains rescues a little girl from a raging river moments before she utters her final words in his arms. Haunted by failure, he launches an investigation that leads him to a school in Montana, where time is ticking down on an event that will rewrite history . . .