Based on the author's own experiences a "heartrending" (People) and haunting story about a magazine editor and mother whose life is changed by a phone call revealing that her husband has vanished without a trace. On a steamy August morning, Sarah Larkin drops her six-year-old daughter, Eliza, off at camp and heads to her office, where she works as an editor of a women's magazine. She is sitting at her desk testing a $450 face cream when the phone...

The past catches up with TV anchor woman Laura Barnett of New York when her daughter is kidnaped. Now she must reveal to her employer, to her husband and to police details of a lurid past as a prostitute who killed a man and left another to take the blame.