Liberty if fleeting; terrorism is eternal! Or so learns Assistant U.S. Attorney and widower John Ferguson as he struggles to handle the news of an impending pandemic as well as a perplexing new case, all the while rearing a precocious four-year-old son and bright but troubled teenage daughter. But when he discovers that the Occupy the Park protester he’s prosecuting for assault on a federal marshal may be linked to a terrorist organization seemingly intent on wreaking havoc in his Jackson, Mississippi hometown, and a mysterious new love interest practically appears on his doorstep, he soon finds himself locked in a life and death struggle with a brilliant but demented revolutionist dedicated to the destruction of everyone Ferguson loves and, upon success, the eventual eradication of the American way of life.