Five years ago, Claire Fletcher escaped her abductor. However, many scars never fade, and making it through was just the start… When Claire views a car filled with children careen into a river, she rushes to the save. But the drivers, a mother named Leah Holloway, prefers to drown. For Claire and her ex girlfriend or boyfriend, Detective Connor Parks, it doesn’t add up.

What would motivate a female with a lovely family and an effective career to resort to such unspeakable extremes? What Connor finds out confirms Claire’s suspicions of something dreadful behind Holloway’s picture-perfect facade: a connection between the terrified mother and a serial strangler focusing on Sacramento soccer moms.

As Claire and Connor are drawn back again together, their investigation leads them to unearth everything Holloway was concealing. What they discover could be the just way to avoid a killer from dazzling again.