It’s 1984 in New York City: the grime, the glitter, the nouveau everything.

Philip Sanders lost his perfect life when his wife fell from 25,000 feet. Then new evidence surfaces, and Philip’s past breaks apart as the facts keep changing. A high-security storage unit, hidden cash, pornographic photos, evidence of an affair, testimony that counters everything he has come to believe.

Numb, functioning as much through absence as anger, he follows the trail Ellie left behind. But someone is watching. Someone who wants to hide the truth, someone with reach, money and no fear of consequences. Soon Philip and son Chris are at the mercy of powerful people: they own the land, they own the city, they own the facts. Can Philip protect what’s left of his family and also solve the mystery of who his wife really was?

In electric and nail-biting sequences uniquely highlighting New York locales, and in a final cathartic reversal set in a ski chalet in Vermont, CLIFFHANGER holds the answers to Philip’s life and death questions.

In the end, it’s just one question: Did she really love me? And only one answer.

But it's not the whole answer, and the truth is not the end.

Philip Sanders is entering the Zone of Deceit.