The Museum Curator, a suspense thriller novel by Bruce Allsman

When accompanying her husband on a business trip to a city in Eastern Europe, Serena Crown and her four-year-old daughter Allison spend a day at a vast private museum while her husband, Tom Crown, attends a business meeting. At the museum, Serena and Allison enjoy a wonderful time together until a sudden power outage disrupts them. Seconds later when the power resumes, Serena finds Allison missing.

Her initial effort to search for Allison ends in failure. Desperate for help, she seeks the assistance of the security chief, and as directed by the curator, they close the museum temporarily to conduct a thorough search, but they could not find Allison anywhere. Her nightmare begins when she discovers that Allison is being held captive somewhere inside the museum by human traffickers who intend to ship her child out before midnight.