With the emergence of a baffling and deadly neurological illness in a hospital in Atlanta, 39 year-old Cassandra Garriman, a brilliant, ambitious and strong-willed medical doctor, traces this mysterious disease back to a deserted island off the coast of South Carolina. She uncovers its alarming potential, though neither infectious nor contagious, to spark a regional or even a national health threat as well as bioterrorism, international espionage and geopolitical turmoil. What is it? How did it get to the island or to the hospital in Atlanta? It must be stopped! It's her fight to win. It's a medical mystery set in Atlanta and Low Country South Carolina which, as the plot winds tighter and tighter, morphs into a suspenseful thriller with an astonishing, thoroughly unexpected conclusion. But... it is also a cautionary tale warning of something dangerous that may be lurking though few people know about it and most have never heard of it.