Linda, America's first female president, is tormented by the accidental bombing of a Middle Eastern girls' school four years ago that killed 162 students. She enters a forbidden romance with her young bodyguard Mike, who turns out to be the son of her closest friend. A series of assassination attempts, kidnappings, and a Capitol bombing erupt, with her husband revealed as a mole for military contractors. As an FBI agent assists the investigation, all clues point to an elaborate "blood for blood" revenge plot. When Linda is taken hostage with bombs planted at the school, Mike must choose between saving his mother, his lover, or the 162 hostages. The mastermind ultimately revealed is the last person anyone would suspect - someone intimately close to Linda.
