Intrigue, love, betrayal, and death; this is Nickie Barker's life at 28. A pawn thrown into a game she dares not lose, but is terrified to win. Each tick of the second hand draws her closer to the hour of reckoning with an altruistic mad man. A man who leads her through a deceptive maze to a frightening discovery that will either end her way of life, or end her.