Writer Mark Hamilton and Hurricane Ridge park ranger Lisa Andrews are swept into a vortex of death and political retribution when Mark shelters a drug overdosed hiker named BJ in his motel room. He doesn't know BJ was the lover of a murdered DEA undercover agent and knows where he hid 400 pounds of crystal meth stolen from a cartel and a priceless cache of Aztec artifacts liberated from a site guarded by the U.S. government. BJ is under heavy surveillance, but when she disappears Mark and Lisa find themselves in the crosshairs. Pursued for information they do not possess they launch a cross country run to solve the murder and save their lives, unaware their involvement links them to the disruption of a border wall scheme and marks them for execution. Will a 2020 election defeat, a pandemic, a deep dive underground and a bit of luck be enough to survive President George Jefferson Rumpe's vendetta?