Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot fathom Amanda?s motivation until the two of them collide in an abandoned orphanage they have both been drawn to for different reasons. Decades before, this was Will?s home. It appears that the case that launched Amanda?s career forty years ago has suddenly come back to life - and it involves the long-held mystery of Will?s birth and parentage.