Twenty-four hours until Elias comes home, and only twenty-four more until it all falls apart.
Elias’s current assignment is his least favorite so far. He’s tasked with babysitting Geoffrey Green, a senile senator pushing a bill with suspicious financial backers. The only thing keeping him tethered to reality are his nightly calls with Cassie, and he’ll be home just in time for her twenty-ninth birthday.
Cassie’s birthday was supposed to be dinner, a roadtrip, and the opportunity to finally breathe. When a wrong turn sends them into a viral testing ground, they realize that they haven’t escaped the danger, it’s just been waiting for them to return.
This time, it’s not just a lab in Richmond. It’s an underground operation in southern Pennsylvania. Baker and Pryor have turned to politicians to keep their business up and running, and it has Adrian Taylor’s fingerprints all over it.
As the secret empire is exposed, Cassie and Elias have to come to terms with what they’ve been trying to their love can’t save them. If they want to survive, they will have to trust each other more fiercely than ever before.