Liz Shaler arrives in Sun Valley to speak at billionaire Patrick Cutter's world-famous media and communications conference to find she has received a series of death threats that the FBI are taking a special interest in, forcing Liz to turn to the local sheriff for help.

A dead search-and-rescue team member, a missing friend, an unexplained illness at a local water-bottling plant that sends workers to the hospital and sets off biohazard warnings may have something in common as Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming follows threads of questionable evidence through the glitter of Sun Valley to expose a masterfully planned domestic terrorist attack.