Attorney Barbara Holloway left her father's high-powered, high-pressure law firm for a more low-key life. While she ponders her next move, she is working out of her house in Eugene, Oregon, taking on small legal problems for local residents. But while Barbara is trying to sort out her own future, two people, desperate for help, show up on her doorstep: former pro football player Martin Owens and his wife, Binnie.Binnie, who is mute, met her husband when she snuck aboard his ship while it was docked in Haiti and smuggled herself into the United States. Born two decades before to a woman from Belize who was kidnapped and enslaved when her boat was attacked by pirates, Binnie fled Haiti just after her mother died. Now Immigration is seeking to deport her back to Haiti---back into the arms of the ruthless and powerful man who subjugated her and her mother, which would be nothing less than a death sentence. Binnie's only hope to avoid deportation is to come up with solid proof of her and her mother's real identity. With only days before the deportation order will be issued, Holloway sets off for Belize to try to find out the truth. But the little that Holloway knows about this case is only the tip of the iceberg in what becomes one of her most complex, compelling, and dangerous cases yet. Read Less