A man A tiger A tornadoJared Montaine owns a big cat rescue in Florida and faces financial pressures getting over his exwife and the challenge of suburbia creeping ever closer to his enclave for the animals But when a tornado wrecks part of the refuge Jareds worst fear comes to life his Siberian tiger Sultan escapesIts a big cat handlers nightmare a tiger on the loose confused lost and hungryJared races against the police the media and the hysterical public all of whom are clamoring for the tigers hide He must recapture Sultan before the cat is killed by traffic by SWAT or by a civilian who just wants to shoot a tiger With fellow wildlife handlers at his side Jared fights desperately to find and capture Sultan before the tiger injures or kills a human Because that would lead to his worst nightmare having to kill the tiger he handraised from a cub Jareds commitment is tested to his animals his refuge and his belief that saving the life of even one tiger is worth losing everything