Caitlyn Jamison arrives in the Adirondack town of Pont-Aven the day a librarian, who is also an environmental activist, is attacked. The town's residents are in an uproar over a company that plans to build a large commercial building on the town's prime waterfront property. How far will the residents go to stop it? Caitlyn decides to do her own investigation into the attack, but her investigation takes a turn when a murder is committed. The two crimes don't seem connected, but her instincts tell her they are. As she delves into the investigation, she learns about the town's deadly secrets. In the meantime, FBI Special Agent Ethan Ewing is busy investigating cybercrime cases. After being told about an 1865 newspaper missing from the Library of Congress, Ethan is called to the library's Packard Campus for a suspected cyber attack. Valuable art and antiquities are also disappearing during shipment. Ethan is challenged to learn how these various thefts are accomplished and are the thefts connected? Is the hacker a youngster in the U.S., or someone living halfway across the world?