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<p><strong>A stay-at-home mom with a past navigates a murder in Silicon Valley...</strong></p><p></p><p>When a lifeguard's body is found at the local pool where Tierney lap swims daily she is pulled back into the life she thought she had left behind when she was a member of the Crisis Intervention Squad in Dublin Ireland. A former hostage negotiator turned stay-at-home mom her move to Silicon Valley for her husband's job offered the contrast of a calm domestic life. But this murder investigation disrupts all that connecting to an event in her past and threatening to overwhelm her.</p><p></p><p>On the domestic front the cliques at her kindergartener's new private school aren't making it easy for her to fit in either. This 'fish out of water' story is a domestic thriller set amid a backdrop of the tech industry's 2007 stock-option backdating scandal.</p><p></p><p>As Tierney struggles with survivor's guilt from her previous employment and wrestles with the motherhood/career balancing act there's still a murder to be solved. And in helping solve it Tierney discovers the assumptions we make about people can be completely incorrect-even when those people are ourselves.</p>