Thomas Sebastian Scott has given up a stressful life with a uber-secret government agency to settle down in a bucolic setting in West Virginia when the local coroner declares a lifelike mannequin a corpse.

Enter New York Detective Specialist Jorge Luis Rodriguez and Deputy Sheriff Terry Hightower.  Before long Scott is on his way to Pakistan on a secret mission as his seminary colleague Father Sean McManus prays for his safe return.

The elegant and reclusive Felicity Phillips becomes a person of interest as her secretive past and dazzling red-haired beauty prove to be both a distraction and a clue to solving the mystery.