Max, Jane and Kyle Madison’s eight-month-old baby boy, is kidnapped on Mardi Gras Day in New Orleans while in the care of his teenage half-sister, Melanie.  Six months later, the family is in deep trouble.  Melanie feels responsible and riddled with guilt. Jane, a lawyer, is obsessed with finding Max to the exclusion of her career and almost everything else in her life.  Her passion is now directed to her work as a volunteer at Child Search, an organization dedicated to finding missing children.  Kyle, also a lawyer, has shut down emotionally in his grief.  He accuses Jane of neglecting her family in her zeal to find other people’s children and moves into the spare bedroom saying he isn’t sure their marriage is worth saving. 

Meanwhile, Jane is warned that she is in danger of losing her job if she doesn’t shape up at work.  Struggling to cope, she’s further stressed by the failure of the police to make any progress on finding Max.  Time and again her hopes are raised and then dashed when a child fitting Max’s description is found, but it’s never Max.  As she struggles to cope, Melanie shocks both Jane and Kyle with a plan to make everything right by getting pregnant to replace the baby.  Reeling with shock and anger, Jane thinks her life can’t get any worse, but it does.  Strange things begin to happen.  Someone is determined to torture Jane with tantalizing hints that Max is alive. 

Jane is a person without faith.  She is angry at God for taking her baby.  As the horrific events in her life escalate, she rejects the peace and acceptance to be found in faith. 

Will her marriage survive?  Will life ever be normal again?  Will she open her heart to God?  What will happen regarding Melanie’s pregnancy? Will Jane and Kyle flush out the person who kidnapped their child?  Will Max be found?