Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan knows what it's like to be haunted by the
past. For years after her daughter, Bonnie, was stolen from her, she
fought for closure. When her mother, Sandra, asks Eve to find a missing
friend named Beth Avery, she wants to help but is sure that Sandra is
hiding something. The fact that she adamantly refuses to go to the
police reinforces Eve's suspicions that something is very wrong.
Eve learns that Beth has been locked away in a mental hospital for
years, which makes it even harder to understand how she could have
disappeared. As Sandra reluctantly reveals small pieces of the truth
about Beth's identity, Eve is shocked to discover that their lives are
strangely entwined, and Beth's disappearance now puts them all in grave
danger.
Desperate, Eve enlists a secret weapon to pick up Beth's trail: rogue
profiler Kendra Michaels. With an uncanny ability to detect clues and
solve puzzles, Kendra begins to uncover the bizarre circumstances of
Beth's escape from what should have been the safety of her hospital
room. Beth is on the run, and as her mind clears--detoxing from the
drugs that have held her prisoner--she begins to see the threads of a
twisted plot within the powerful Avery family, threatening to destroy
her and anyone else who might jeopardize the high-stakes game that is
already in play.
