Who guards the world of covert operations? Enter the Cellar, a most secret spy organ-ization hiding deep within the United States .

Two women become inextricably involved in a dangerous wed of lies, intrigue, and betrayal as they fight for their lives and the safety of their country. Neeley was the lover and protégée of Gant, a Cellar operative, and is trying both to pick up the pieces of her life after Gant's death and to unveil a mystery that Gant always held close to his chest. Hannah, a housewife, is equally lost after her husband simply disappears. They soon learn that the men in their lives shared a dangerous secret, one that some very powerful people would shed blood to protect. Neeley and Hannah's chance meeting sets a decades-old plan into motion.

They couldn't come from more different worlds, but as they try to escape the people who seem determined to kill them, Hannah and Neeley discover they at least one thing in common: they've both been living a lie.

Crisscrossing the globe, the women find them-selves in a deadly game of survival, one that they must win in order to keep the United States safe not only from vicious acts of terror, but from its own powers that be. And if they hope ever to uncover the truth about the lovers they thought they Knew, Neeley and Hannah first must learn the truth about themselves. But when the Cellar is involved, there is no such thing as coincidence, and the truth is always protected by a bodyguard ok lies.

 

ROBERT DOHERTY is the name of the USA Today bestselling author of the Area 51, Atlantis, and Psychic Warrior series, as well as numerous other books. He grew up in New York City , graduated from West Point , and spent twenty years on active and reserve duty in the infantry and Green Berets, including commanding an A-Team and teaching at Fort Bragg , North Carolina . He also makes presentations based on his nonfiction work Who Dares Wins: Special Operations Tactics for Success. He lives on Hilton Head Island , South Carolina .