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Steve Martini weaves a story based on today's fears and tomorrow's headlines, creating a gripping narrative filled with realism and authentic characters. Jocelyn "Joss" Cole, a burned-out public defender from L.A., seeks a quieter life in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. Her only significant clients are commercial fishermen afflicted by a mysterious illness that doctors cannot diagnose, which Joss suspects has an industrial origin. Soon, Dean Belden, a wealthy client looking to establish a business in the islands, walks into her office. However, shortly after he is subpoenaed to a federal grand jury, Belden dies in a fiery float plane explosion on Seattle's Lake Union, leaving Joss in the dark about the grand jury proceedings. Meanwhile, Gideon Van Ry, a nuclear fission expert at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, California, is concerned about two missing tactical nuclear devices from a former Soviet storage facility. These weapons were last accounted for in crates intended for an American company, Belden Electronics. Unable to trace the company, Gideon’s only lead is Joss, the lawyer who incorporated it. As the story unfolds, Joss finds herself entangled in a web of danger, deception, and a race against time to uncover the truth behind the explosion and the missing weapons.