Mary Harrington doesn't want to revive her past. She certainly doesn't want her son and granddaughter to know what she did forty-four years ago. But when two teenagers from a local gang try to mug her, old habits are hard to forget. Sergeant Jack Rossini, Rivershore, Michigan's lone investigative detective, initially doesn't believe an 'old' woman could have put the youths in the hospital, but once he meets Mary, he becomes curious. That curiosity grows when he discovers there's no record of her existence prior to forty-four years ago. Mary and Jack's lives continue to intersect as the gang vows to teach Mary a lesson, and a man from Mary's past arrives in Rivershore, threatening to reveal her secrets.

Katherine Ward is assigned the case, never expecting it to parallel her own kidnapping experience seventeen years before.In Skagway, Alaska, the usual crimes faced by the police department's small force are DUIs and missing bikes. With the chief in the hospital and one officer missing, they're not prepared for the kidnapping of a billionaire's daughter. Misty Morgan thought running off with a college boy would get her father's attention. Now she and another teenager are praying for their lives. Stuck in China, Misty's father knew his daughter was up to something, so he asked his longtime friend Vince Naninito fly to Alaska and stop Misty. Problem is Vince arrives too late. The college boy is dead, Misty is missing, and the police aren't eager to let him help. When Katherine realizes the same man who kidnapped and raped her years ago is the one holding Misty and the other teenager, the terror of those months resurfaces. Vince finds her drunk and in tears, and he's with her...