The year is 1958. "Erika Lehmann and her CIA field agent team codenamed the Shield Maidens are sent on another mission during the dark days of the Cold War. This time to the Mediterranean islands of Malta, and to the rough-and-tumble world of the infamous Casbah in Algiers before ending in the mystical and forlorn Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania. This assignment will test not only the daring and resolve of the Shield Maidens, but Erika’s teenaged daughter, as well."