Gina Gurley has a good life. She has a beautiful daughter, a loving husband and a nice home in a small, rural Maryland town where it seems nothing, good or bad, ever happens. Then suddenly, early one April morning her free-lance writer husband is killed in a car wreck chasing a story and their lives are shattered. From that moment forward She and her daughter embark on a roller-coaster ride of bone-numbing fear punctuated with murder, corruption, abuse of the highest power and a terror so absolute that nothing will ever be the same.