Sarah Brandt is shattered when she learns that a woman has inquired at
the Daughters of Hope Mission for Catherine, the abandoned child she has
taken as her daughter. The woman claims she was Catherine's nursemaid,
and is now acting on behalf of the girl's mother to reunite them.
Unwilling to simply hand Catherine over to a complete stranger, Sarah
asks Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to investigate. But when he goes to
interview the woman at her tenement in Chelsea, he finds she has been
murdered.
Though her death leaves Sarah's claim to Catherine unchallenged, her
sense of justice compels her to work with Malloy to find the killer.
Their search takes them from the marble mansions of the Upper West Side
to the dilapidated dwellings of lower Manhattan and into the deepest and
darkest secrets of Catherine's past.
And while Malloy helps Sarah determine the fate of the child she loves,
he faces a challenge of his own--and his decision could change both
their lives forever...