2nd of 3 stories in the Secrets subseries of related tales set in the Mai Fisher universe. Released individually and then collected in .
Former KGB officer Olga Lubova has nothing to live for anymore. Her family is long dead. Her wife has been murdered. She is in hiding from an enemy she didn’t expect. A pandemic rages around the world. What is the point in living? The waters of Lake Geneva in Switzerland beckon her to a relatively quick death. All she has to do is take a step, and her life would be behind her. Before she can take that step, someone intervenes with a plan of her own." Years later, Lubova is convinced "to write a memoir of her ground-breaking life as a high-level KGB officer."