In the last Detective Regan Pescoli novel, her teen daughter was kidnapped, killing her abductor in an escape attempt; Regan was not there to help free her daughter, because she had gone into labor. It is now six months later and Regan’s daughter is handling life fine; but Regan is finding her job in conflict with her new child, so she is using all o f her accumulated sick, personal and vacation time to cover while she decides what is best for her and her family.
Regan has never been close to any of her sisters; but when she receives a call from distraught sister, Sarina that her sister Brindle and her husband Paul have been murdered in their home, in their own beds; Pecoli’s senses strain to high alert. When she learns that her teenage niece is missing, Pescoli packs up infant son and teenage daughter and heads to California.
Neighbors who heard something strange in the night, report they had only heard one noise, indicating that two people were involved, and had synchronized the time of the killing since the couple slept in separate rooms. After a few days, Regan returns home only to be awakened early in the morning by a pounding on the door. Ragen has felt an ominous presence surrounding her peaceful home for sometime; peeking through the window, she recognizes her missing niece on the porch.
After questioning her niece, Regan feels that she is somehow involved with this disaster, but her story does not waver. When the LA police fly in to interview her Ivy so does her aunt Sarina who sits in the interview. Sarina sees only the good in people until it is too late, realizes that something is not quite right with Ivy’s story and stops the interview.
When Ivy’s ex-boyfriend disappears from LA with a friend, skepticism shines through to Ivy, yet she remains cool, until her ex and his friend are found murdered not far from Pescoli’s home and someone kidnaps baby Tucker right from his nursery in the middle of the night.
Pescoli realizes her feeling of vulnerability are justified; she now knows who the killer and the kidnapper is, this is one person witih a long standing grudge against Pexcoli and will do anything to make her suffer!