Deeply shaken after a brutal attack, Bailey Carpenter struggles to reclaim control over what had once seemed like a neatly-ordered life. Unable to face her job, her friends, or even the world outside her apartment, Bailey is trapped with her thoughts, replaying the attack in her desperate search for every detail that will help the police uncover the identity of her unknown assailant.

Divorcee Cindy Carver must deal with old wounds and new turmoil when her daughter, Julia, an aspiring actress, goes missing.

Forty-year-old Terry Painter, a single nurse at a home for the elderly and disabled, is shaken out of her tranquil life when she rents the cottage behind her house to the exciting young Alison Simms, but it is not long before Terry begins to think Alison is not the friend she believed her to be.

"A lifetime ago, every year Carole Shipley looked forward to her wedding anniversary. But then a celebratory trip to Mexico for the occasion with her husband and friends ended in the unsolved kidnapping of her infant daughter, Samantha. Now, fifteen years after that horrific time, divorced and isolated, Carole is forced to relive the kidnapping by reporters who call every year on the anniversary of Samantha's disappearance. However, this year when...