Seven years ago, Mia Briscoe went to a frat party with her best friend—but she never heard from or saw Serena again. Now, Mia is an investigative journalist covering politics in New York City, but she hasn’t given up trying to find out what really happened to her friend that night. When an interview with a mayoral candidate stirs up old memories, Mia enlists Lacey Sherlock’s help to uncover a sinister string of events going all the way back to that disastrous party. But some very powerful—and very dangerous—people will do anything to keep the past buried. Meanwhile, CIA Director Olivia Hildebrandt is having the same nightmare three nights running; she's hiding helplessly in an alley, holding a small mysterious box, and she feels danger approaching. On the third night, Dillon Savich is pulled into the dream with her. The dreams seem to be related to Hildebrandt’s past undercover work in the Middle East, but there are large gaps in her memory of that time. With help from Dr. Emanuel Hicks, an FBI shrink and world-famous hypnotist, Hildebrandt and Savich must unravel the message behind these dreams—and discover what’s so important about the mysterious box—before trouble catches up with them in real time.