Leia DiAngeles’s first experience of terrorism was losing both her parents at Ground Zero on September 11th, 2001. Twenty years later, she is an FBI counterterrorism analyst hunting a right-wing extremist group and the terrorist who does its dirty work, a man called The Butcher. When a traffic camera finally snaps a photo of The Butcher’s face, Leia is horrified to discover that the boogeyman she’s been chasing is actually a decorated American soldier who has been tortured, brainwashed, and ultimately forced to do a terrorist organization’s evil bidding. When Leia’s findings land her in the enemy’s crosshairs, she joins forces with the man she saved, Sergeant James “Jamie” Goldt, in a desperate bid to dismantle the organization that destroyed his life, prevent any further attack on an America on the brink of civil war, and rescue the prisoners still suffering in the bowels of a Washington, D.C. prison…even if it means taking on tyrants inside the government Leia dedicated her life to serving, tyrants who would go so far as to create a fake terrorist organization and commit very real acts of violence to achieve their wicked goals.