KATIE AT 26: Just when it looked like Dr. Katie Rose Fowler's life was settling down with her focus on her new hard-earned academic career, her college boyfriend, Chris Miller is found dead in a Santa Barbara hotel. And Katie suspects his death was a murder. Before long she is allied with veteran city homicide cop, Lt. Dan Crosetti, and her lover, Jeff Healey, who has just returned home from Africa, to solve the crime. Chris's investigative story in progress is focused on what appears to be a string of deaths connected to a super-secret development of a spy system called Chameleon based on cutting-edge nanotechnology. The rogue intelligence operation fears exposure might compromise U.S. espionage interests and embarks on a course of extreme measures to keep a compounding trail of death and disappearances secret. The cabal appears to include top level Justice Department and intelligence agency people, and even a pending Supreme Court nominee. The conspiratorial alliance targets Katie and Jeff and others who have knowledge of the criminal alliance with death and they are soon it becomes a race to survive and to expose the national scandal.