When fourteen-year-old Riley Jarrett vanishes from her family's RV at a truck stop near Las Vegas, investigators set out to find the truth only to discover that each family member has something to hide--and that their secrets could prove deadly.

Ned Wentworth will be forever grateful to the family that plucked him from the streets and gave him a home, even though polite society still whispers years later about his questionable past. Precisely because of Ned's connections in low places, Lady Rosalind Kinwood approaches him to help her find a lady's maid who has disappeared. Rosalind is too opinionated--and too intelligent--and has frequently suffered judgment at the hands of polite society....