Private detective Jessica Shaw is already accustomed to anonymous messages. But what she didn't expect was to receive photographs of a three-year-old girl who was kidnapped in Los Angeles twenty-three years ago. A girl in whom she recognized herself with horror. In pursuit of answers, Jessica heads to the darkest underbelly of Los Angeles, she longs to solve a case that the police once failed to cope with. At the same time, Detective Jason Price is investigating the case of a monstrous murder of a college student who worked as a prostitute. Jessica and Jason are brought together by chance, but she soon realizes that Price knows and is hiding something about her father's past and her mother's death. Jessica must unravel the mystery of her own disappearance many years ago, but the closer she gets to the truth, the more difficult it is not to lose traces.