Terrifying troubles plague Laura's life though she prevails--often with the help of a stranger. On her thirtieth birthday, she learns the identity of this stranger.
A year after crime reporter Joe Carpenter's wife and two young daughters are killed in a plane crash in which there are reportedly no survivors, he meets a mysterious woman named Rose who claims to have walked away from the disaster and he embarks on a mission fueled by rage and hope.
Novelist Cullen "Cubby" Greenwich is pulled into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse when he learns that Shearman Waxx, the critic who wrote a vicious criticism of Cubby's latest book, is actually a sociopath bent on destroying more than Cubby's career.
