"Tess Maynard's life is coming apart. At home with her three young children ... she is steadily becoming obsessed with an American journalist captured in Syria and being held by ISIS ... Meanwhile, the life of her husband is also beginning to unravel. John Maynard is a psychologist working as a college counselor. But in a former life--a life that becomes his obsession--he worked as a government contractor at a CIA black site in Eastern Europe where suspected terrorists ... were tortured. Now the Justice Department is threatening an investigation, but not if John will cooperate in an ongoing operation: a professor at the college where he works is rumored to be involved with an organization masking a militant group"--
Mark Powell.