P.I. Elvis Cole's relationship with attorney Lucy Chenier is becoming strained. When she moved from Louisiana to be with Elvis in Los Angeles, she never dreamed that violence could touch her life so easily. But then the unthinkable happens. While Lucy is away on business and her young son Ben is staying with Elvis, Ben vanishes. Desperate to believe that the boy has run away, Elvis begins a frantic search. But evidence soon mounts to suggest a much darker scenario than Elvis could ever have imagined.

As Lucy's wealthy ex-husband attempts to wrest control of the investigation away, Elvis and his partner, Joe Pike, are forced to consider a troubling lead - one indicating that Ben's disappearance is connected to a terrible, long-held secret from Elvis's troubled pas...