Mike and Myra come to the Berkshires to identify the body of friend and employee, Bernie Peters, and drawn into a battle against the same web of conspiracy that killed him, uncover, bit by bit, an insidious plot that threatens more than just the small city of Pittsfield. Along the way, their past history with each other helps shape a romantic plot line full of twists and turns. The duo encounters villainy in a variety of adversaries, and the most innocuous and familiar locales become eerily menacing in a life and death game of political and scientific intrigue.