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When a CEO connected to defense contracts is murdered 10:44pm, an FBI special agent is sent to cooperate with local police. She gets a handsome rookie detective. When another is murdered 10:44pm, the duo look into the past.

Following the death of CEO Robert Loring at precisely 10:44 pm, the FBI sends in Jordan Price, one of their best and brightest to solve the case. As other key executives are murdered at exactly the same time, Jordan finds herself investigating the past in order to solve the case. She quickly discovers the ultimate cover up and is under the gun to solve the mystery before the next victim is killed.—Anonymous

Robert Loring, CEO of Baltimore-based Loring Industries, is murdered in his fourteenth floor office, he managing to call 911 during the shooting incident which times his death at 10:44pm. Because of the national security implications of Loring Industries being in the process of negotiating a contract with the Department of Defense (DOD), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is leading the investigation, the agent assigned being Special Agent Jordan Price, who technically is working on behalf of DOD. The Baltimore Police Department (BPD), still involved, assigns Detective Elliot Larken to be the liaison to work with Price. With zero other leads as building security accounts for all people in and out of the building leading to and following the murder, Price and Larken, in Loring being overheard on the 911 call that the killer was constantly checking the time, believe it was a coordinated team hired to commit the murder. That and other information leads to them shortlisting four suspects all associated to Loring Industries: Nathan Loring, the victim's son and the heir apparent to the company, he who did not agree with the company moving into the realm of defense contracts; senior executives Miles Hayden and Vincent Delucas, who were not told but may have known that they were being let go after the signing of the contract; and engineer Stephen Choi, who, according to him, had an amicable parting of the ways with the company in also not agreeing with the military contract, but who in reality may just be a disgruntled ex-employee. Price and Larken are unaware that the 911 call does offer another key piece of information which may lead to motive and identity of the killer. Beyond the different focuses of the FBI/DOD and Price being to determine if the motive is tied to the contract and the BPD and Larken being solely to apprehend the killer regardless of motive, Price and Larken will have to deal with the respective chips on their shoulders to work effectively as a pair, Price a DOD contract specialist and thus basically a desk jockey who is out of her wheelhouse with a homicide, and Larken a neophyte who was assigned this case, not only his first homicide but first case as a detective, by his boss, Homicide Captain Vaughn, purely to irk Price.—Huggo