Pursuit

Jessica Monaghan is a newly hired lawyer at a prestigious firm when her senior partner, John Riordan, phones late one Saturday night with an assignment she hopes will launch her career. He asks her to meet Annette Cooper, the First Lady and a client for whom Riordan serves as personal counsel, at a hotel in Washington, D.C. Riordan sounds like he has been drinking, but Jess, eager to prove herself, goes.

Jess remembers very little of that evening beyond climbing into the back of a speeding car. The car crashes on the way, and the First Lady is killed. Jess survives, though badly hurt, and the crash is reported worldwide as a tragedy. She cannot recall what led up to it, yet she cannot shake the suspicion that it was no accident.

FBI agent Mark Ryan believes Jess is concealing something, and his doubts deepen as her life unravels. Riordan dies suddenly of a heart attack, and his personal secretary is killed in a car accident on the way to his funeral. Everyone who could have known what happened at the meeting is gone, and Jess begins to realize that if her memory returns, she may be next. Frightened and certain that the crash was deliberate, she has only Ryan to turn to.