Disgraced disbarred and defriended exlawyer Morgan Pike is nearly bankrupt and desperate for a paycheck She accepts the only job shes been offered in a year of lookingprivate investigator with a Chattanooga Tennessee firm Morgan has been with the company for a year Her goal is to stay out of trouble and serve the remaining two years of her fouryear suspension and return to her prior life as a defense attorney in Richmond VirginiaBored by divorce and insurance cases and against the advice of her boss she becomes involved in the search for a beautiful young woman who has disappeared without a trace The case takes her from the Blue Ridge Mountains of north Georgia to the dark underbelly of postKatrina New Orleans and back Her unrelenting quest for the truth propels her into terrifying clashes with members of a violent survivalist cabal in the southern Appalachian Mountains The investigation builds to a stunning and dramatic conclusion that no one saw comingHere is a short excerpt from the bookSunday morning I took my first cup of coffee and sat at the cafe table by the sliding doors leading to the balcony of my apartment I pulled my robe close and leaned back from the table Something flashed in the glass door The left side of my face erupted with the pain of a thousand wasp stings The door spiderwebbed with cracks radiating from a small hole I recognized the sound of a bullet snapping past my headI sat stunned shocked uncomprehending A second passed then my body reacted I dived for the floor just as the glass in the door disintegrated A second bullet cracked through the room tearing into the floor a foot from my face A third shot blasted through the kitchen wall and smashed into the dishwasherI scrambled on hands and knees toward the bedroom Three more bullets ripped through the walls of the apartment Using the bed as a shield between me and the outside wall I reached up to the nightstand grabbed my phone and dialed911 What is your emergencySomeones shooting at meagain