When legendary retired spy Sylvia Marlowe offers her fortune to anyone who can kill her within seventy-two hours, assassins descend on her sleepy New England town—unaware she has turned it into a multinational sting to capture them and draw her estranged children home.

SYNOPSIS:

Legendary retired spy Sylvia Marlowe has spent years quietly living in the small New Hampshire town of Kanesborough when she makes an irresistible televised public offer: whoever kills her within seventy-two hours inherits her considerable fortune. The announcement draws local thrill seekers, bounty hunters, assassins, and mercenaries from around the world, but Sylvia is no helpless target. The bounty is the centerpiece of an elaborate multinational sting designed to capture criminals who have remained beyond the reach of conventional law enforcement. As Sheriff Roy Dobbins struggles to keep his town from becoming a war zone, Sylvia’s estranged children race home from opposite directions: Thomas, the good son, a disciplined CIA operative, and Emily, estranged and a brilliant NSA hacker. Neither realizes at first that the other is coming, and both quickly discover their mother may be several moves ahead of everyone.

As amateurs collide with professionals and the seventy-two-hour hunt grows increasingly lethal, Thomas and Emily uncover another layer to Sylvia’s operation. Embedded among the international teams is Connor Dupre, an apparently unassuming liaison whose father disappeared four years earlier alongside their own missing father, Gavin Marlowe. Connor may hold the key to what really happened to both men - and to why Sylvia chose this moment to bring everyone together. What begins as a worldwide bounty hunt becomes a tightly controlled trap, a family reckoning, and the reopening of a mystery that has haunted the Marlowes for years