While the refuge burns, seniors are being forced into nursing homes. This activity has become a serious problem. Medicare approved of a huge increase in the amount paid for nursing home care, so it quickly became a corporate enterprise. A serious problem started before the fire and continued after it. A friend of Deputy Sheriff Mack Thomas is harassed by a corporate nursing home, trying to force his live-in partner into a home. He then becomes involved. When he devises a way to stop the harassment, he soon has a price on his head. It's put there by the major nursing home company whose harassment he stopped.
Mack's wife, Lisa, now a deputy sheriff, devises a plan to capture the rapist/murderer men, but needs approval from the sheriff, Dale Magee, and the okay from Mack. They are afraid she'll be hurt or killed. She knows otherwise.
It's a constant, dangerous time for Mack and Lisa as they battle the forces of evil coming at them from several directions. Both have many brushes with death as they battle a corporation and a group of men who kidnap, rape, and murder women.