The harder Jo tries to erase her family history, the deeper she is pulled into a frightening world of threats, criminal activity, and murder. At twenty-two, Jo Logan thought she had escaped. She had reinvented herself as a USC graduate, on her way to Law School and a new life in sunny upscale Newport Beach, California. Jo Logan thought she had out-run her mysterious childhood and repressed beyond resurrection her painful childhood memories-when she is suddenly propelled back into her family's dark and secret past. The past came crashing back to attack Jo, from her mother's hoard, in Costa Mesa, California. It was a yellow house, crammed full of 'treasures'-treasures her mother had collected over the years from unwanted junk piles, garbage cans, abandoned lots, and thrift stores. This was Jo Logan's unwanted inheritance. That reality and the memories it contained filled her with terror.

Jo could not allow the past to surface, it would destroy the new life she had worked so hard to create. Jo finds herself the prime suspect in the police investigation into her mother's murder, and a target of the notorious Aryan Brotherhood prison gang. Everyone, including Jo herself, is sure she must know more than she is telling. She is forced to return to her long forgotten family roots, which were born and nurtured in California's San Quintin maximum-security prison and stretch from California to Montana.