FBI Special Agent Jackson Crowne is flying renowned psychiatrist Dr. Timothy MacLean back to Washington, D.C., to protect him and discover who's trying to kill him. But they don't make it. Agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock are told about Crowne's mayday sent from deep in the Appalachian mountains. Savich and Sherlock arrive on the scene to find the Crowne and the doctor have been saved by Rachel Abbott--a young woman who barely survived her own assassination attempt. She's the bastard daughter of a powerful Senator who died in an auto accident three weeks before. Adding to the complexity of the situation, Dr. MacLean is suffering from frontal lobe dementia, leaving him with a propensity to speak his mind without regard to the consequences. With a patient list of Washington's movers and shakers, MacLean has almost certainly compromised doctor-patient confidentiality. The FBI presumes one of his clients is out to shut him up--but which one, and why? Stuck in remote Parlow, Kentucky, with no cell phone reception and escalating terror, what are the poor feds to do?