In the night, a boy breaks into her bedroom. She is taken to the Russian embassy where she is heavily questioned but eventually let go. She eventually leaves the embassy, where she slips and, in doing so, accidentally punches the Russian ambassador. She initially does not recognise him but has a flashback of them playing together as young children. She also meets her brother Jamie's old friend, Alexei Volkov, who is the son of a senior Russian embassy worker. Trying to escape the embassy, she briefly meets a German girl who scares her into staying inside. She immediately takes a disliking to the embassy and Ms Chancellor, a senior woman working there. Grace's father sends her to return to Adria to live in an American embassy with her grandfather, the ambassador. Grace remembers the face of a man with a large scar who was on the scene of Caroline's death, and believes he was responsible for the murder.

Grace's mother Caroline was killed in what she believes was a murder, but is told by her family was a fire. Grace Blakely is a sixteen-year-old American who grew up between her native country and the fictional Mediterranean nation of Adria, located in the Balkan Peninsula, which she has roots in.

The third, and final book in the series, Take The Key And Lock Her Up, was released at the end of December, 2016 with some regions getting it in January, 2017. The second book of the series, See How They Run, was released on December 22, 2015. The concept for the book was in the making from 2007, but only began being written in 2013. It is the first book in the Embassy Row series set in and around the diplomatic quarter of a Mediterranean capital city. All Fall Down (2015) is a young adult novel by teen-fiction author Ally Carter.

Embassy row series