In Washington State, the government secretly plants hundreds of coyote willow trees along the Columbia River near a nuclear plant… In Oregon, a Deputy Sheriff dies in a mysterious car explosion… In the Nation’s Capital, an “Imminent Threat” report goes missing… Rotated stateside and assigned to Homeland Security, Major Jake Hawthorne battles PTSD as he struggles to adapt to civilian life. Warned off investigating a friend’s missing report, Jake rebels and returns home to the Pacific Northwest to find his friend has died in a fiery demolition derby. Jake alone believes it is murder and now he is the next target of someone anticipating his every move. Estranged from his family, Jake turns to a native shaman to unlock cryptic rock art clues to the murder and follow their trail across the high-desert landscape. The stakes rise when Jake uncovers more than a murder. Jake races the clock to expose a band of mercenaries tangled in a conspiracy sixty years in the making, as the land he loves teeters on the brink of an ecological Armageddon.