A woman living in self-imposed exile on the Shetland Islands is haunted by a dark secret.

One eventful middle-class childhood behind the Iron Curtain in Soviet Leningrad.  A mix of a fun memoir and social history of the years preceding the collapse of the USSR. (The book is finished.)

The walls were built long ago, and the oceans continue to rise. As Patch Evans navigates the panoptic nightmare of a total surveillance state, what truths will she unveil regarding the history of her country, and the world at large?