Annika, the fourteen-year-old daughter of killer-for-hire, Mad Dog Joe, gains court approval to witness the execution of her beloved father. Seeking anonymity after the media sensation that followed, she lived quietly with her grandmother while attending college and law school. Until, after surviving a murderous attack and learning the truth about her father and her nature, she enlists in the battle against evil, having become free to love and alter the saga of her life.

R. L. Rhyse is also the author of the eighteen-volume Margaret of Greenwich(R) series.