The plot of American writer Danielle Steel’s novel takes place in New York. Mariella Patterson, the wife of a prominent businessman, has had her son kidnapped. Suspicions fall on Mariella’s former husband, Charles Delony. Mariella and Charles’s marriage ended tragically a few years ago: their children died, and Mariella ended up in a clinic. Charles considered his wife to be to blame for the tragedy. Could it be that now Charles—the one who craves revenge—has decided to destroy what seemed like his ex-wife’s newfound happiness?