Twenty five years later a woman involved in a hit and run accident is completely disorientated, or so it seems. She claims to be one of the missing Bethany girls. Kevin Infante, a detective with Baltimore County Homicide, undertakes the investigation. He is skeptical of the woman's story. She both knows too much and yet not enough of the past occurrences, and refuses to talk about what she had been doing or where she was for 25 years. Infante travels to Pennsylvania and Georgia in an attempt to find the mother, though there is doubt whether she would recognize her daughter after 25 years.

This is a beautifully written page turner. The story moves quickly back and forth between flashbacks from the 70s and 80s and the present. Lippman gives a brilliant examination of how present consequences are influenced by past events. The tightly woven plot is suspenseful with tension building until the final outcome.