In the sleepy town of Carson, Amelia Lucas, a best-selling crime novelist, has moved in with Patrick and life feels good.
Amelia is persuaded by Patrick to help out Lucy Wright, the teacher who she saved from madman, Barnhart, with a writing class that the teacher has just set up. Once she is there she sees Sarah, a local girl, who is living with Curt Galloway as nanny to his twins after her parents have been killed in a car crash. But to Amelia, something doesn’t seem right with Sarah and deeply buried memories come to the surface as she tries to help the girl with her problems. And when Amelia gets arrested on suspicion of assault on Sarah’s boyfriend, she is even more convinced that Sarah is in danger and needs her help.