When Homeland Security Analyst Claire Green's brother urges her to come visit, she clears her desk in Chicago and heads for southern Ohio. But when she arrives, the house is deserted and her brother, Alan, is missing. Claire enlists the help of Alan's neighbors, Madison Zuberi and her husband, Captain Nate Zuberi of the Pleasant Valley Police Force, in the quest to find her brother. But she's in for two surprises. First, Alan has been keeping secrets from her-secrets that may have gotten him killed, and put her life in danger. Second, Private Investigator Rafe O'Connell, the only man she ever loved-and lost-is a close friend of Madison and Nate's, and they ask him to be part of the investigation. Claire needs their help, but can she put past hurts behind her as she not only tries to find her brother, but stay alive?