A Senior Secret Service agent — the first woman under thirty promoted to that rank — is on bereavement leave after a notorious counterfeiter murdered her husband, another agent. Off the clock and without approval, she hunts the killer. When she tracks him to a city in Central Virginia, she needs help in unfamiliar territory. The local police aren’t an option: the Secret Service would discover she’s gone rogue. So she turns to a private eye, Harry Bittercress. With his street smarts and her federal training, they begin to close in on the killer. But there’s something she’s hiding from Harry. And it could get him killed.