Kate Conway is in the middle of a painful divorce when her about-to-be-ex-husband dies. The coroner writes up the cause of death as “undetermined,” starting a police investigation with Kate as the main suspect. But that’s not her only problem. Her husband’s new girlfriend wants desperately to be friends, her almost ex-in-laws won’t leave her alone, and Kate finds herself mourning a man she thought she no longer loved.
And it only gets worse. Her job as a television field producer for the true crime show “Missing Persons” puts her in the middle of a search for a twenty-two-year-old woman who disappeared a year earlier. The woman, Theresa Moretti, did volunteer work and planned to be a nurse. According to her mother, she was a dream child. But her best friend hints at a darker side, and her ex-boyfriend seems like a stalker. Then there’s the brother with a bad temper, the current boyfriend looking for his fifteen minutes of fame, and a prominent lawyer who says he barely knew Theresa, but seems way too interested in the case – and in Kate.
Kate keeps telling herself she doesn’t really care what happened to Theresa. All she wants is a cliché true crime story and enough footage for twenty-two minutes of air time, but things don’t work out that way. She finds herself reluctantly drawn into the missing woman’s life, and in the process uncovers some hard truths about her own lost opportunities. As she digs deeper, it becomes clear that someone is trying to stop her. Kate has just one choice – find out what happened to her husband, and to Theresa, before a third person ends up dead – her.
