Zoya Andropova, a young Russian refugee, finds herself alone in an elite New Jersey boarding school.

Having lost her family and her home, Zoya struggles to belong among the confident American girls, a task made more difficult by her new country’s growing paranoia about Soviet Spies. When she meets charismatic fellow Russian émigré Leo Orlov — whose books Zoya has obsessed over for years-everything seems to change.

But she soon discovers that Leo is bound by the-sinister orchestrations of his brilliant wife, Vera, and that their relationship is far more complex than Zoya could ever have imagined...