Miriam Rabin was born in Wrexham, North Wales, at the turn of the twentieth century, a village schoolteacher and later wife of a hill farmer. Ten years after her husband"s death, she is a major in the NKVD secret police in Stalinist Russia, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and an elite in her field. Her political fervour, passions, heartbreak, and determination lead her along this path through the most troubled times of the twentieth century, times which find her robbed of her country, her loved ones, and very far from home. A highly-researched and exquisitely-told novel which explores the most treacherous and politically charged moments in Depression-era Britain, civil-war Spain, and Stalinist Russia.