FBI Particular Agent Jackson Crowne is soaring renowned psychiatrist Dr. Timothy MacLean back again to Washington, D.C., to protect him and discover who’s aiming to kill him. But they don’t make it. That same morning, real estate agents Savich and Sherlock are informed about Agent Crowne’s Mayday sent from deep in the Appalachian mountains near Parlow, Kentucky. Within thirty minutes, Savich and Sherlock are aboard an FBI helicopter, going for Parlow. Agent Crowne barely manages to create his Cessna down in the small about TailSpin Cudlow Valley and haul the unconscious Dr. MacLean from your burning up wreckage before it explodes.

Their crash is witnessed by Rachael Abbott, a woman that has just narrowly escaped drowning by assailants who drugged her, tied her to a cement block, and threw her into Black Rock Lake. When Savich and Sherlock get to Parlow, they discover Jack port is down but not out, that Rachael saved his and Dr. MacLean’s lives, which she’s hiding something big. To add to the complexity of the situation, Dr. MacLean has been identified as having frontal lobe dementia, a pernicious disease which makes the victim say whatever comes to mind without regard to outcomes. With a patient set of Washington’s elite movers and shakers, MacLean provides almost certainly compromised doctor-patient confidentiality, and one of his patients, they presume, is out to shut him up. But which one, and why?