Mary Komson survives a hit-and-run massacre in East Legon that kills her best friend Grace and two undercover journalists, but survival is just the beginning. Hunted by ruthless killers who want the microchip she unknowingly possesses, Mary has nowhere to turn.

The CID offers little protection, her disgraced uncle Kofi is her only ally, and the one detective who might help has vanished without a trace. John Bediako receives an offer he can't refuse kill the witness, retrieve the chip, and finally learn the name of his sister's murderer.

But when he discovers his target is the broken young woman he met at a bar, both drowning in grief, he must choose between the vengeance that's consumed him for two years and the mercy that might redeem them both.

In the shadows of Accra, where corruption runs deep and truth is the deadliest weapon, everyone is living on borrowed time.