Margaret and Randy (Margaret of Greenwich(r))

Margaret's wedding party is filled with joy until a frantic 10-year-old intrudes. "They're not moving. Both are dead," she pants. Leaving the police wondering why they were tortured since the family apparently possessed nothing of value. Only the location of this girl who, having been hidden since birth, holds the power over a great nation's fate. Soon other troubles arise: living with their threatened house guests, Judd and Ada, creates crippling tension in Margaret's marriage; and Erika, the target of a blackmailer and her closest friend, asks, "Does your company have employees who kill?"

But Margaret has allies too: Vladimir, a former general of Russia's Presidential Security Service, who considers her a daughter; Borya, a powerful intelligence official nicknamed Lucifer (The Devil), her cherished uncle; Cody, a retired chief of the Texas Rangers; and her husband, Randy, the father of her children and love of her life.

R. L. Rhyse, a former resident of Greenwich, Connecticut, is the author of the eighteen-volume Margaret of Greenwich(R) Young Adult series, Margaret's suspenseful coming-of-age saga describing the life of a poor teenager, from adolescence through marriage and motherhood, in the richest town in America; and of the novel Dead To Life. The most recent volume in this series (as of 2026) is Margaret In Washington.