Fifteen-year-old Carson Turley’s comfortable teenage life is ripped away from her as she and her father become fugitives on the run from Echo, a clandestine division of the CIA. It turns out that her father is an ex-Echo agent and has been in hiding since President Sandinsky and the Sons of Liberty came into power. Her math teacher, Mr. Creaksly was sent by Echo to identify and arrest her father, and will stop at nothing in his pursuit of Carson and her father. Carson's father is eventually captured, and she must mine the depths of her strength and integrity to save him. In just one week, everything Carson thought she knew about her country, her family, and herself is radically changed forever.