Federal Judge Faith Matheson is preparing to try the most explosive case of her career, involving corruption within some of the highest levels of the military. But the power of her final ruling could severly impact attempts of the U.S. army to launch the first rocket into space in over thrity years. Suddenly finding herself in grave danger, the Judge is assigned the protective services of Conor Gallagher, a former Marine Corps helicopter pilot, decorated with the Congressional Medal of Honor. But the stakes are higher than either ever imagined as they dig deeper and deeper, they are pulled into a dangerous web of conspiracy, treason and murder.