Documents prove the owners of a financial company co-conspired to illegally mishandle the fortunes of their clients. A government investigator stumbles upon the records. He just has to sort out the data first and plans to do it during a hunting trip in Tennessee. The two brothers who own the financial company panic. They hire a 'fixer' who employs a skilled assassin to hide their transgressions. It must look like a hunting accident. Something goes wrong. A young couple witness the murder and put the killer on their trail. Detective John Bethany and forensic pathologist, Dr. Anita Spears, from Michigan, are hiking the Appalachian Trail. They soon become involved and seek answers as well because they know one of the victims. Now the hunter becomes the hunted. Follow Bethany and Spears as they pursue a purposeful killer and unravel the mystery surrounding the financial company and its international partner.