A smart young woman in publishing tells a tale of love, fear, masked attack and murder: She gets Sick and Fired from her high-flying job when covid 19 threatens New York. So she has to take on an 'impossible' job writing what must be a Best Selling Ancestry about a First Family of Virginia of heroic and progressive reputation. But her probing uncovers a secretive conspiracy and a madness that lead to her being attacked by a masked man and then pursued in a heart-stopping car chase that threatens an icy drowning. And her lover appears up to his neck in this evil!