Leaving No Trace is written in the vein of authors Michael Critchon and James Patterson, with medical content and murderous intrigue. Dr. Wesley Hunter is a 65 year old retired surgeon and the patriarch of a powerful American family. As the founder of the philanthropic of Elm Grove Health Management, he chairs the philanthropic inherited oil business, Hunter Oil. Hunter is committed to provide the United States its own oil supply, and travels both nationally and internationally to revolutionize the petroleum system on home soil and abroad. Despite Hunter's devotion to help others, he is found dead under suspicious circumstances at his Nevada mansion. The police detectives and FBI are profoundly baffled, and must ask themselves, "Was Dr. Wesley Hunter murdered? If so, by whom?" Hunter's wife was in France with her lover at the family chateau two days earlier, while Hunter's daughter, Sandi, had recently returned to Nevada after a divorce. However, she soon finds out her father's picture perfect life was just a facade hiding darker elements, and that her father had recently been threatened. What Sandi isn't aware of is that she herself has is now the killer's next target, and each clue she covers about the hidden aspects of Hunter's life brings her closing to startling revelations, including who unknowingly had past ties to the murder.