When journalist Kevin Burns gets a call from former schoolmate Carl Greene, he's surprised. They weren't that close at school and the temperature cooled when Carl married Kevin's girl, Lucy. Carl, a scientist, sounds anxious, afraid. They arrange to meet at the baseball game in Denver but Carl never makes it. Someone kills him first.Soon after, Lucy surprises a masked figure prowling Carl's study. Whatever her husband was working on, a lot of people want to get their hands on it. Some are clearly prepared to kill for it, though not the prowler who, it turns out, is a woman with a quite different agenda ...
A la puerta de un convento francés aparece una mujer con un fuerte golpe en la cabeza. Las monjas la acogen en su comunidad y le ponen nombre: Eve. Todo transcurre con normalidad durante un año hasta que, una noche, unos desconocidos atacan el convento, masacran a muchas de sus moradoras y se llevan consigo la única pista que puede llevar a descubrir la verdadera identidad de Eve: un pasaje del ferry Tánger-Algeciras. Siguiendo solamente ese indicio, la protagonista se embarca en un viaje en busca de su pasado, tratande de averiguar quiénes son esos poderosos enemigos a los que debe enfrentarse.