Lo que comienza como un romantico fin de semana en las afueras termina siendo una terrible pesadilla para Sally Montgomery. El brutal asesinato de su compañero Frederick Pierson la obliga a esconderse en el bosque, ya que la policia la considera como la principal sospechosa. En su desesperacion por sobrevivir y probar su inocencia, llama a su ex marido, Pete Montgomery, antiguo detective de la policia y actual investigador privado. Pero finalmente sera Devon, la hija de ambos, quien emprenda la verdadera cruzada para salvar a Sally, utilizando los instintos detectivescos que ha heredado de su padre. En su busqueda de la verdad Devon se acercara demasiado al peligroso clan Pierson, lo bastante como para seducir a los dos apuestos sobrinos del asesinado, pero tambien para poner en peligro su propia vida. / Sally Montgomery anticipated a romantic weekend getaway. What she got instead was a nightmare of unrelenting terror. The murder of her companion and the torching of their cabin sends Sally into hidingfrom the police, who believe she's a suspect... and from the killer, who wants her dead. Desperate and alone in the woods, Sally has nowhere to run and nowhere to turnexcept to her ex-husband, former NYPD detective-turned-private investigator Pete Montgomery, and their daughter Devon, who inherited her father's investigative instincts. Devon's search for the truth takes her dangerously close to the powerful Pierson clan and its enigmatic heir apparent, Blake Pierson. But with Olympic show-jumping gold at stake and his family's empire threatened, whose side is Blake on? Time is rapidly running out for Devon. Racing the clock, she must prove her mother's innocence and outmaneuver the killer before her tactics put her in the wrong place, and one more step will mean certain death.