Publicly, Alison and Brock are a dynamic power couple. Privately, their marriage is in serious trouble -- made worse by Alison's public censure of Brock's career-making arrest of Edward Nelson, ex-CIA operative turned illegal weapons dealer. What Brock doesn't know is that Alison has recruited Nelson to inform against a secret army of right-wing U.S. terrorists determined to destroy Washington's power elite. But Nelson has his own hidden agenda as well. Soon, both Brock and Alison find themselves in a deep morass of shifting loyalties, outright betrayals, and danger that could lead straight to the heart of America.