At the age of 28, Kate Gibson seemed to have her life planned out. Moving back to Washington, D.C., where her friends and family lived was going to be a welcome relief. With a good job in the Pentagon, all she had to do was keep her head down and work hard. But her plans for her life were abruptly altered when she saw something she shouldn't have. Now Kate was tied up in a murderous web of corruption that seemed to reach the very highest positions of power. The government and country that she had served for so many years was turning its back on her. Government agencies were hunting her down. As she watched her family die around her, she turned to a stranger for help, a British SAS Sergeant whom she had never met. All her trust and hopes were pinned on this one stranger . . .