In the next exciting thriller by Doug McPheters, "Stepping on Fingers", Lea Holderness, a young teacher in far Northern New York, was sent to a penal colony on a remote island in the Chukchi Sea, north of Russia, by an American religious court for speaking out against intrusive new Federal laws. The Movement, which fights attempts of the Federal government to infringe basic freedoms, helped her escape the prison colony. Upon her return to America, Lea rescues her young daughter from Federal clutches. In return, she joined the Movement's drive to stifle the Federal government's unpopular plans to erase many Constitutional rights, often in dangerous ways.