"FBI Agent Sara Carter is mourning the fact that her father was killed trying to stop the abduction of her half sister years before. It's the reason she became a police officer and the reason for her robust policing style. When that style becomes a problem for her resident agent in charge, she is forced to accept a secondment to Interpol in East Timor. There she is assigned to investigate the abduction of babies in the mountains along the country's...

A baby sitter is killed in New York and the mother hears the news at work. The baby sitter was minding her baby. She rushes to the police station, only to learn the baby has already been claimed. The novel tells the story of Valerie Vincent's search. By the author of The Seduction.