Germaine Bloomfield is a graduate student in public health with plenty of academic ambition and next to no social ambitions. Carter Dumes is a internal medicine resident at the academic hospital where Germaine works. When her study coordinator and friend disappears under mysterious circumstances, Germaine and Carter are set on a collision course that neither can avoid. Even if they wanted to. But one of these two holds a massive secret. This secret will turn the other's world on its head. And once the cat is out of the bag, there's no putting it back.