"Over twenty years ago, the heiress Patricia Lockwood was abducted during a robbery of her family's estate, then locked inside an isolated cabin for months. Patricia escaped, but so did her captors -- and the items stolen from her family were never recovered. Until now. On the Upper West Side, a recluse is found murdered in his penthouse apartment, alongside two objects of note: a stolen Vermeer painting and a leather suitcase bearing the initials...

Laura loves her daughter more than anything in the world. But nine-year-old daughter Autumn is being bullied. Laura feels helpless. When Autumn fails to return home from school one day, Laura goes looking for her. When she finds a crowd of older children taunting her little girl, in the heat of the moment, Laura makes a terrible choice, a choice that will have devastating consequences for her and her daughter.