Love lost, found, and lost again, while people are trying to kill her. // After escaping her kidnappers and would-be murderers, Emily Hampstead is called to Québec with her friends Jack Rathburn and Hilda Paisley to testify in the trial of a terrorist bomber. There, she is reunited with her lover, Jean-Pierre. Friends of the bomber attack Emily and Jean-Pierre in the woods. The terrorists die, but so does he. As COVID begins closing borders, the three friends fly to Germany in time to wait out the pandemic. Jack and Hilda are recalled to active duty, and Emily is hired as an ambulance driver and EMT. She resumes her studies at UVA online, relieved to hide her grief in the lockdown. After vaccines come out and the pandemic eases off, Emily returns to the US to attend the National Park Service Law Enforcement Academy in Flagstaff, Arizona. She hopes to become a seasonal ranger and earn her nursing degree at UVA. The school is attacked by an extremist militia led by a man who has sworn to kill Emily. Nowhere is safe as long as he is free…