This book is about a young couple that move to a small town and how the husband is killed and the life of a single mother struggling to find answers as her home is broken into several times. Her husband had brought home some pages from his law office that were coded. He was killed along with his secretary because of these pages. Julie stays up nights working on the childish code and learns several things bout these people. After several break-ins, they kidnap her son. Things heat up after that.