Tasia McFarland is a washed-up country-pop singer and the ex-wife of the President, desperate for the break that will get her topping the charts again. On her comeback tour, which features a politically-oriented hit, she's killed in front of a shocked crowd of 40,000. When forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett is called upon to solve the crime, however, she only finds more questions. For Jo, pouring over Tasia's past quickly becomes a race to extinguish the conspiracy rumor mill before it incites a level of violence that reaches America's highest corridors of power-and tears apart the very fabric of our nation.