When Meg Stanton walks out of a convenience store to find a dead man sprawled across the hood of her car, she thinks he's been shot. It's the worst assumption she's ever made in her ten-year career as a cop. Forty-eight hours later, a hotel waiter drops dead while serving the CEO of the third largest national bank. That's when Meg begins to suspect that the victims are links in some bizarre experiment...but she has no idea that she is about to become its key element.