Isabel and Marcus Raines are the perfect couple. She is a well known novelist; he is a brilliant inventor of high-tech games and they have been happily married for five years. But one morning, Marcus says he loves her, leaves for work, and disappears into thin air. Isabel relentlessly tried to reach him when he doesn't return home. But when his call finally comes, she hears only a man's terrified scream. The police are of no use. The screams she heard may have been a prank, they tell her. Men leave. They leave all the time. Isabel races to Marcus's office, trying to find some answers. Instead she finds herself in the middle of an FBI raid, and she is knocked unconscious. When she awakes in a hospital, she learns that everyone Marcus worked with is dead. When Isabel returns home she finds that it has been completely ransacked and all their money is missing from their accounts. Then the police discover that Marcus Raines is a dead man. Long dead. Years dead. Isabel has been married to a stranger. And now the chase is on, because Isabel will not rest until she finds the truth about the man she loved, who he was, where he's gone, and how he was able to deceive her so completely.