Allison Drew is a smart and ambitious government agent whose career is stagnating. Then she is surprisingly assigned a high-profile case that could get her attention. But she isn't prepared for the web of intrigue and corruption that awaits her as she travels between Minneapolis, Washington, Detroit and Knoxville. As she tries to disentangle a wide-spread string of crimes involving too many gruesome murders and more than a little blood-letting, she must face the possibility that the agency to which she has devoted her life may have a secret agenda. To come out alive, Allie has to question everything she believes and confront some deeply-suppressed demons of her own.