"My mother always warned me against believing strangers too quickly in a big city like San Francisco. What if the strangers we know carry the greater risk of breaking our hearts----betraying our expectations?"
In San Francisco, Ivy Hon knows almost nothing about her biological parents since she was adopted as an infant. She is suffering with a strange illness and feels a need to search her genetic background to get some answers.
When she receives the results of her DNA test, she is informed by the FBI that she has a biological link to a serial killer called the "Full Moon Killer." This murderer has been leaving victims around the Pacific Northwest for decades. On the positive side, Ivy finds a cousin online and pays a visit to her small town in Washington State. It doesn't take long for Ivy to discover that her mother, Tatum, was likely a victim of the Full Moon Killer and that her father disappeared near the time of her birth and is remembered by almost no one.
Ivy finds out that a few of her new-found family are or have been involved with an intimidating religious cult. She soon begins to feel she may be in danger herself.
I don't understand the significance of the title, found in the quote, because it seemed to me that Ivy was with actual strangers in most of the story. The book was pretty well-written and kept me turning pages, so my rating is 3.
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