Samantha Albright is close to realizing the freedom and independence that she has struggled to achieve since distancing herself from the violence of her early life in rural North Alabama.
In the final semester of her
accounting degree in Mobile, an unguarded relationship thrusts her into the doubtful realm of terrorist suspicions. Sam is forced to choose between the ruin of her future plans or undertaking a dangerous role as a confidential informant for US intelligence.
Her innate distrust of others means that she must navigate this landscape of coercion, betrayal and deceit alone, in order to restore control to her life. She must become a clandestine agent and draw closer to a man whose persona of liberal intellectualism masks a darker heart.
When Samantha Albright agreed to remain a CIA clandestine agent, she never expected that any future assignment would approach the danger that she first faced last year, but she was wrong. Now, a routine surveillance and a chance encounter thrust Sam deep undercover, this time into a conspiracy to smuggle arms to Russian terrorists that reaches from the US Attorney in Mobile all the way to the White House.
And the timing couldn't be worse for Sam: her relationship with Trey is stretched to breaking, and her father's dark psychology still overshadows her family.
The deeper Sam infiltrates the conspiracy, the more expansive it grows, its technological powers become more startling. But as Sam gets nearer to discovering the true motives and ultimate aims for the plot, the consequences of being exposed prove deadly.
It is the third year of the Second American Civil War and former CIA agent Samantha Albright, a fugitive framed for a terrorist act in Azerbaijan, is with an underground resistance cell fighting against fascist militants in what remains of the United States. Hardened by years of bitter conflict, while dodging government RFID-sensing drones and US military counter-insurgency patrols, Sam is preparing to strike a blow that may bring about the end of the civil war.
Yet what seems like a straightforward operation quickly transforms into a mystery that propels her from the offices of the United Nations in New York, through dangerous encounters and battles against ethnic cleansing in the Red Zone, to exotic destinations around the world in search of the man who holds the key: Dr. Nishantha Sinha.