LuAnn Tyler is an unwed mother striving to escape a life of endless poverty. Then a mysterious Mr Jackson makes her an offer he thinks no one can refuse: a guarantee to be the winner of the $100 million lottery. But LuAnn won´t do it. Less than twenty-four hours later, she is fighting for her life and running from a false murder charge. Jackson´s offer - and its condition that she leave the country forever - seems her only hope. However, ten years later, LuAnn secretly returns to the United States to begin a new life with Matthew Riggs, a man whose origins are as murky as her own. But a canny reporter has picked up her trail, as have the FBI - and Jackson. Matt Riggs is the only person who can help her. But is help what Matt intends or is he too closing in for the kill? Baldacci cuts everyone´s grass - Grisham´s, Ludlum´s, even Patricia Cornwell´s - and more than gets away with it - People magazine.