When Jennifer Mascia is five years old, the FBI comes for her father. At that moment Jenny realizes that her family isn't exactly normal. What follows are months of confusion; she and her mother crisscross the country, from California to New York to Miami and back again. When her father finally returns home, months later, his absence is never explained--and the family has a new last name. It's only much later that Jenny discovers that theirs was a life spent on the lam, trying to outrun the law. An only child, she revels in her parents' intense love for her--and rides the highs and lows of their equally passionate arguments. As Jenny unravels her family's dark secrets, she must confront the grisly legacy she has inherited and the hard truth that her parents are not--and have never been--who they claimed to be.--From publisher description.