Carson Treffer may be paranoid. As a boy he nearly loses his life to pneumonia, but when his father prays that God take his own life instead, Carson recovers. Four years later, Carson's dad dies in a farming accident and the young man is left wondering if he is the cause. Now a thirty-year-old paramedic, the Afghanistan war veteran battles death daily on the plains of Nebraska, living each day with reckless abandon. When the Lancaster County Fire Department accuses Carson and the Eastern Ambulance Company of incompetence, Carson finds himself in another battle to save the beleaguered business...