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Once a respected rural physician, disillusioned Cyrus Darian abandons his career to live off the grid, carrying only his backpack, his instincts, and the medical skills he can’t quite leave behind. Haunted by a past he refuses to name, he drifts westward—until a harrowing backcountry rescue forces him to act. After saving a stranger’s life with nothing but a pocketknife and tubing, Cyrus is invited to a remote Oregon commune that seems, at first, like a quiet place to disappear.

But when a resident dies under strange medical circumstances—and then another—Cyrus begins to suspect something far more sinister than poor health or bad luck. As he digs deeper with the help of unlikely allies, he uncovers evidence of an agenda that reaches well beyond the commune's garden fences—one that powerful outsiders will do anything to keep buried.

To stop the next death, Cyrus must rely on the very skills he abandoned—and confront the reason he ran in the first place.