"I know your secret. If you defy me, then I the world will know it too.""If you hang up, he will die."A terrifying phone call sweeps rich and powerful businesswoman Judith Find into a desperate search for a kidnapped boy. If she involves the authorities, the child will die ... and Judith's darkest secret will be revealed to the world.Judith is teamed with a mysterious stranger with a carefully guarded secret of his own. Is Luke Becker an unwilling ally or an agent of the kidnapper? As Judith and Luke's mutual distrust wars against a growing attraction, the life of a small boy hangs in the balance. A boy unlike any other Judith has met.Eight-year-old Abel Palek will help Judith discover a life she has never imagined. But freeing him could cost her everything.Her career. Her reputation. And very possibly her life.