Sheila Howard has been one of her city's best homicide detectives for the past 10 years. Her husband passed away suddenly, from a heart attack two years ago, leaving her and their 15-year-old daughter on their own. Sheila's daughter, Melissa, has been having problems coping with the death and absence of her father. Sheila has been struggling to balance her work life and her parenting life ever since. To make matters worse, a new serial killer has emerged and he is playing a deadly game with Detective Howard.
The killer has been sending photographs of young women to Detective Howard's desk and a few days later, the bodies of these young women are being found. The killer begins taunting Sheila and blaming her for not saving the women in time. At first, the murders all seem to be unrelated, until one day, the killer sends her a photograph that hits much too close to home...
Imagine waking up everyday with voices in your head, telling you that your entire world, your baby girl, has gone missing. When really, she's been asleep in her bed the entire time you've been out looking for her. Then imagine what it's like to wake up one day and realize that this time, someone has taken your baby away for real. At first, no one believes twenty-four year old Heather Hayden - a mentally unstable, single mother to four year old daughter Avery - when she says her daughter is gone. But when the police take the time to investigate, little Avery is nowhere to be found. Heather embarks on the painful journey of finding her baby girl, working alongside police and FBI agents to catch the man responsible for abducting Avery.