Elderly Pulitzer Prize winning and best-selling author Eva Malone (a.k.a. ML Malone) has spent her career avoiding publicity. After the loss of several close friends due to advanced age, loneliness causes her to reach out to a high school student, Sarah Hunter, the daughter of an Episcopal priest. Eva soon finds herself held hostage and drugged after a loan shark lusts after a Monet painting she supposedly owns. Eva must depend on Sarah and her friends for help, but no one believes that Eva could truly be in danger. As Sarah and her friends uncover the truth, their lives are endangered and her best friend is critically injured. Sarah's determination to help her friend, at all cost, puts her own life in jeopardy. As Sarah's life hangs in the balance, her father and brother struggle with a crisis of faith.