When the book begins, she’s been receiving threats for weeks. Her son’s kidnapping naturally seems to be tied to her case. FBI Special Agent Joseph Carter is tasked with finding Daphne’s son, a goal which rapidly becomes clouded when the guilty verdict is read, and the bodies start piling up. Daphne and Joseph are both characters with traumatic pasts. This is to be expected, as characters with non-traumatic histories are beasts which do not occur in Karen Rose books. The trouble in this one, however, was that Daphne’s past trauma just would not stop. It was one thing on top of another, all coming to the fore. It stretched the limits of credulity, and this is from someone who will believe just about anything a writer tells her.