Introducing Sarah McKinney ..... lawyer and international mediator. Celebrating the conclusion of a case in London, she is hit by a stray bullet. When she meets the intended targets, a beautiful young Jordanian woman and her lover, a journalist on the hunt for the hidden assets of Middle-Eastern strongmen, she is drawn into a criminal intrigue that follows her home to Decatur, Georgia. The Sphinx has the answers -- but who has the Sphinx?