"[This novel focuses] on two women who meet in an airport, both alone, both scared, and both urgently needing an escape from their lives. Claire Cook has a husband whose temper burns as bright as his promising political career, and she has worked for months on a plan to get out. A chance meeting in an airport bar brings her together with a stranger equally as desperate. Together they hatch a plan to switch tickets--Claire taking Eva's flight to Oakland,...

A case of mistaken identity arises after a screw-up sales consultant and the world's deadliest assassin--known only as The Man from Toronto--run into each other at a holiday rental.