How far would you go to keep a secret?

Former KGB officer Olga Lubova has nothing to live for anymore. Her family is long dead. Her wife has been murdered. She is in hiding from an enemy she didn't expect. A pandemic rages around the world. What is the point in living? The waters of Lake Geneva in Switzerland beckon her to a relatively quick death. All she has to do is take a step, and her life would be behind her.

Before she can take that step, someone intervenes with a plan of her own. Natalia Bukharin, now an adult, was Lubova's charge as a child, when Lubova was her au pair/bodyguard. Natalia convinces Lubova to write a memoir of her ground-breaking life as a high-level KGB officer. With reluctance, Lubova takes the project on, knowing the lake will still be there when she completes it.

In her travels through her past, she discovers a terrible secret. Not one that might shatter the security of a country but one that would shatter someone who is more important to her than her own family was.

One thing the KGB taught her well: Some secrets are meant to be kept.