Karen Friedmann, the wife of a successful lawyer and mother of two children, finds her life turned into hell. Her husband Charles became a victim of an explosion in the subway that took dozens of lives. Soon strangers appeared at her home and started asking questions about her husband’s past. What’s more, they threatened to deal harshly with Karen and her family unless she returned the huge money that Charles had hidden somewhere… At first, Karen doesn’t even understand what they are talking about. But little by little she realizes: her respectable husband led a double life and was connected with very dangerous people. Time is running out for Karen. A deadly threat hangs over her and the children. Desperate, she turns to Ty Houk—an experienced detective who doesn’t back down in what seem like even the most hopeless situations…