Seventy-five years ago, John Dillinger stashed silver and gold coins in the town of Elkinsville, Indiana. His great-grandson wants the lost loot. Two catches. First, Elkinsville is now a forgotten town, sixty feet below the surface of a reservoir. Easy, blow the dam holding the water. Second, a fiery speleologist, Dr. Jenna Longstreth, has discovered his plan. Not so easy, as he finds out.

To repay a debt, Jenna agrees to explore a cave that may be linked to missing ordnance from a nearby military base. Proving the link is true, she is swept into an evil plot that forces her to fight for her sister's life, and the lives of an entire town. Caught in it now, Jenna works to uncover the plan and learns a psychopath is going to attack a dam and wipe out a downstream town as a diversion for his real ambition: recovering a fortune. The high stakes and little time push Jenna into a cave being used for the attack. Despite booby trapped passages and a partner she's come to distrust, she must stop the murderous plan of Dillinger's kin.

Death Mode is a thriller about a woman with an unresolved past and how this constant turmoil draws her into the plan of a psychopath. Early in life, Jenna smothered her past with math and science, but now her memories are so raw, they can only be blocked by the thrill of risks. This strange need leads her into his dangerous plan. As one risk lures her deeper into the next, Jenna must decide when the safety of others outweighs protecting one's self.