One chilly Manhattan night, a man and a woman find each other -- and enter a shattering world where nothing is as it seems.

It has been eighteen months since Lonnie Blake's wife was murdered, and his life has taken a nosedive. Then he meets Carol Dodson, a woman on the run -- and with a secret. During their single night of unforgettable passion, Lonnie is overcome with a desire he thought he had lost forever. When Carol disappears, Lonnie, seized by unquenchable obsession, begins to search for her -- and instead finds he's being hunted through a sinister world of illusion, deceit, and cold-blooded murder. Now Lonnie must run for his life until he can finally discover Carol's secret: a remarkable little girl named Amanda.