One night, at the end of an alley, Rose Margolins world changes forever. Everything shes ever known and trusted is pulled like a rug from beneath her feet.

Everyone sees Isador for the dreamer he is-hes a talker and ambitious to a fault. Everyone, that is, except his wife, Rose, who ignores the warnings. She is in love and determined to follow Isador wherever he leads, never imagining shell find herself sitting across a table from one of Revere Beachs Prohibition-era mob bosses. Or that shell seek help from Jacob Moll her young neighbor, and from Samuel Bloom-better known as Earl the Ear-one...

A martyr's duty is to die. And kill.

Five years ago, a suicide-bomber named Nadheer detonated an explosive-filled Toyota outside a Middle East military checkpoint. The blast shattered more than those immediately around him--it forever changed two other lives. Shafra, his brother, who worshipped Nadheer and longs to follow in his footsteps, and Alicia Blake, whose husband's violent end in the same terrorist attack haunts her and drives her overactive imagination. Now Shafra has arrived in America, with his sights set on Atlanta. Alicia holds the key to stopping him...