Tina Evans has spent a year trying to accept the death of her son. The wound will never heal, but she must move on. As the premiere of the show she is directing in Las Vegas approaches, she feels ready for a new beginning.

Until the night she sees two words written on the blackboard in Danny's room: NOT DEAD. What if things are not as she thinks? What if her child wasn't actually killed along with the other scouts in that horrific accident? The need to discover the truth will lead Tina from the lights of Las Vegas to the shadows of Nevada. And to a nightmare that begins even further away, in a laboratory in Wuhan, China.

Dean Koontz's thriller that was talked about more than any other in 2020, as it refers, although written years before, to the city from which the pandemic started...