The secrets a father kept from his daughter about who he was and who she is . . .become the only way he can protect her.1944: Jacques volunteered for a mission into northern France to restore a Resistance communications network destroyed by the Gestapo and extract a key member of the group known as the Gypsy. Previous agents had lasted only a few days to a few weeks. He soon realizes that his primary job is to survive long enough to complete the mission.1976: When her father and mother die in an auto accident, Gen Patterson's life is turned upside down. She had been her daddy's girl, but now, she is beginning to wonder if she ever really knew him. At first, the items he'd hidden in a trunk in their attic and in a distant bank box only bring questions. But when she thinks she's being followed and someone takes a shot at her, she seeks help from an old friend. A chance encounter with Scott Talbott reminds her of a football game, a surprise kiss, a candy-apple red '55 Ford T-bird, and getting grounded for dating a seventeen-year-old when she had just turned fifteen. Working as a team, they seek to unravel the mystery of what her father wanted to protect her from, and a three-decade-old mystery.