One girl on a skateboard. A dead body with a serpent tat. The countdown begins. Just as Dara Adengard, a fifteen year-old skateboarder, stumbles onto the scene of a gruesome killing in her apartment building, her father is abducted—and she has to run to save her own life. In a desperate search for answers, she soon finds herself caught in the web of a homegrown terrorist plot. Racing against time on an explosive and ever-shifting suburban battlefield, Dara must somehow conquer both the relentless pursuers of the present and the piercing memories of her own past. Aided by an elderly, enigmatic Tarot card reader, Dara learns the shocking truth that can set her father free--or bring her world to a shattering end.