By the time the call came, her parents' fate was sealed, but sixteen-year-old Annalise escaped the deadly fire with her life - and an encrypted flash drive containing a cache of stolen information someone is willing to kill for. At the scene of the crime, the men who set the fire spotted Annalise, and are now in a desperate search to find her and retrieve the drive. Annalise swore to her father that she would find her uncle Nick and deliver the package to him. A former professor who has retreated to the North Carolina mountains to mourn the untimely death of his wife, Nick just wants to be left alone with his grief. But when Annalise finally stumbles onto his porch, feverish and exhausted, he has no choice but to protect her and uncover the mystery of his brother's death.