Professor Bates and his associates at Wasatch College in Wasatch, Colorado, are up to their necks in intrigue. It apparently involves just about everyone that he knows. Unknown as to why, he will place himself and his family in great danger unless he backs off from his involvement in affairs that he is told do not involve him. The problem...he doesn't know what he has done, nor to whom. He is in a race to find out before he and his family suffer dire consequences.