Desperation had a flavor. It was all Emma could taste as her life in Washington DC started to crumble before her. In a city filled with prestige and American dreams also lay political fallacy and corruption—corruption she would soon find herself indulging in. Emma would have done anything to save herself from the downfall, gone to any length, sacrificed her soul if needed. What she didn’t realize was that someone else was more desperate to save their own life and that the worst was yet to come.