Michael Fallon has it all. A rising star in a Wall Street firm, he is surrounded by devoted friends and family, and the most beautiful women he's ever met has just agreed to marry him. Then , in a single violent instant, everything changes.

It begins with the senseless murder of his uncle Jake - the powerful and mysterious man who raised him - during an apparent burglary attempt.

Then, days after losing the man he idolized, a chance shotgun blast takes the life of his fiancee during a convenience store hold-up. She dies in his arms, another victim of random violence.

Michael's high-powered job is the next casualty, when he's fired with no explanation, then black-balled by all of Wall Street.

But the force that seems determined to destroy him isn't finished. Men he doesn't know seem to want his life too. At last Michael flees the city, running blindly from the violence that has been systematically robbing him of everything he loves.

Telling no one where he has gone, Michael Fallon hopes to start over in Martha's Vineyard. He begins to think a new life is possible. And there's even a woman, the enigmatic Megan Cole, who makes him feel he may actually love again.

But soon Michael will realize that for the last of the Fallons, there is no sanctuary. He will learn that his entire life is built on lies. And when it is almost too late, he will realize that the shadows are preparing to strike again, relentlessly pursuing him through a deadly maze of greed, corruption, poison and revenge. Suddenly he knows that nothing is radom and escape was never an option.

And now the only hope left is to stand and fight.