After surviving a mountain-lion attack, Dr. Faith Brannon returns to her work as a senior compliance executive inside a global healthcare organization with a changed understanding of order and survival. When Aline Mercer's identity record is duplicated by an automated harmonization process, the discrepancy spreads into her daughter's treatment authorization, pharmacy benefits, and continuity of care. Faith follows what appears to be a narrow technical error through systems she has helped make defensible and confronts the distance between compliance, conscience, and the body that receives an approved decision's consequence.
