Trust Your Instincts...Only weeks after a shootout at a family vacation home in the mountains that nearly killed blind high school senior Tess Barrett and left nine unidentified mercenaries dead, Tess is thrust into another deadly race against time. Tess's friend Matt has been behaving oddly, and she thinks it might have something to do with Never Bitten, a new game app that everyone seems to be hooked on. Worse, after a fight with her uncle and guardian, Travis, about going to a school dance, Travis disappears. Tess and her assistant Oliver learn that Travis has been kidnapped, and that the game app is infected with an artificial intelligence virus that brainwashes game players. To Tess's horror, she also learns that the game was developed by her father's company, which Travis now runs. When she finds out that Travis gave a copy of the infected game app to Austin Dunn, the U.S. vice president's son, she realizes she's up against a conspiracy so big, a conspiracy to transform the U.S. government at the highest level, she can't stop it alone. And the only person who can help is Travis...if only Tess can find him in time.With the clock ticking, Tess and Oliver race to track down Travis, free him from his kidnappers and get to Washington, D.C., before Austin assassinates his own father...