Alex O'Roark is living the dream, his dream. He divides his time between a loving relationship he shares with the woman he wants to marry and his career where he gets paid as a top government agent tracking down serial killers. Unfortunately life has its balance and his girlfriend Tory Reyes won't marry him until he trades his gun for a desk. When Alex wakes up in a hospital, heartbeats away from death, he can see how Tory's worst fears almost became reality.