Sometimes life seems like a madhouse. And sometimes it's worse . . . Psychiatrist Grace Rendeau struggles to make sense of her husband's untimely death. Left a widow with two children, Grace forges a new life for her family, abandoning her private practice and moving to Minnesota to take on a prestigious position at the Rochester Forensic Center for the Criminally Insane, work that will allow her to spend more time with her children. In striving to heal her patients, Grace herself finds healing, a new strength, and a sense of possibilities. Among the possibilities is a budding romance that blossoms into love. Grace goes on a medical mission to Indonesia. She returns home to an empty house—and a chilling kidnapper's note. Where are her children? What has happened to them? Who is attempting to destroy her? Grace's riveting story illuminates the hopes and fears of every wife or husband, mother or father, woman or man, caught in life's turmoil and striving to overcome.