Aud is back in Atlanta, teaching a self-defense class to a ragtag group of women, when one of her students takes her lessons in a direction she didn’t imagine. She heads to Seattle for a break, and to look into what seems like routine mismanagement at one of her investment properties. But once there she uncovers evidence of sabotage—of the movie being shot in her building, and of her own body. In an unfamiliar city, she becomes unfamiliar to herself. The final book in the series is where Aud learns both the limits, and power, of violence.