"As a child, Abby Mullen escaped the insidious Wilcox cult when it literally went down in flames. Years later, she's the NYPD's best hostage negotiator and a mother...Armed conspiracy theorists called the Watchers have attacked the local high school--and taken her daughter hostage...With the delusional Watchers holding her child at gunpoint...the clock is ticking on her daughter's life, and she has no choice but to negotiate with the paranoid group and discover their leader's secret before it's too late"-- Provided by publisher.