After a highly decorated police officer is found brutally murdered in the ski resort town of High Peaks, the State Bureau of Criminal Investigation steps in. Upon hearing the news, homicide investigator Noah Sutherland returns to his hometown in the Adirondacks, believing his brother's death to be more than just a cold, methodical ambush.

After solving the murder of his brother, Noah Sutherland takes on a new position near High Peaks, a ski resort town located in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York. The idyllic setting is disturbed when a tourist pulls a bloated body from the lake, drawing attention to Katherine Evans, a missing residential counselor who disappeared a week prior.

FBI Agent Gardner Camden is an analytical genius with an affinity for puzzles. He also has a blind spot on the human side of investigations, a blindness that sometimes even includes people in his own life, like his beloved seven-year-old daughter Camila. Gardner and his squad of brilliant yet quirky agents make up the Patterns and Recognition (PAR) unit, the FBI’s hidden edge, brought in for cases that no one else can solve. When DNA links a murder victim to a serial killer long presumed dead, the team springs into action.

Jacob Snow—elite soldier-turned-CIA agent, haunted by his tortured past—is one of the CIA’s greatest assets and is dispatched when the stakes are highest. When an ancient Egyptian relic goes missing under mysterious circumstances, Jacob knows this is no run-of-the-mill robbery: The relic holds a secret—one that could destroy everything.

A father's final warning. When a catastrophic attack on the nation plunges the world into chaos, civilization collapses overnight. Amidst the anarchy, New York thrift store owner Erika Blake stumbles upon a leather-bound survival guide—The Safety Plan. Written by a father to his estranged son, Michael Shepherd, it outlines a path to safety, but at a cost. To escape the disaster, Erika must choose: follow the journal’s coordinates to a remote estate in Maine or track down its intended recipient—the only man who may hold the key to her survival.