Stillwater, Minnesota, 1993. 19-year-old Lauren Patrick (a Black woman) leaves home for a party. Little does she know, she will never arrive. Twenty-five years later, Rue Patton, a rookie cop, and Lauren’s daughter finds her mother's attacker. But in locating him, she makes an earth-shattering discovery about her mom that will change her life forever.

For fans of female protagonists, mystery and crime, and procedural thrillers such as Willow Rose’s Eva Rae Thomas, L.T. Ryan, Cassie Quinn and Rachel Hatch, L.T. Vargas and Violet Darger, Renee Pawlish and Sarah Spillman, Susan M. Boyer and Liz Talbot, Laura Dave and Hannah Hall, Mary Stone and Charli Cross, and Debra Webb and Kerri Devlin.