As Ann Kern starts
her new business as an interior decorator, the temperatures have risen, tulips
and daffodils are in bloom and there’s a feeling of endless possibilities in
the air. She has no idea that her world is about to be turned upside down.
When Janis Riley,
a woman for whom money is no object, contacts Ann to redecorate her house, she
is elated. But the initial visit with her first client leaves her with mixed
emotions. Why did Janis react so strangely to seeing a photo of Davey, Ann’s
six-year-old son?
But Ann has bigger
problems. Her husband, David, a recovering alcoholic, has lost both his mother
and his job and Ann worries that he’ll start drinking again. To add to her
concerns, their next-door-neighbor, Dorothy Baker, is severely depressed but
Ann’s efforts to help her are rebuffed.
Ann is terrified
when she wakes up the day before Easter to find Davey gone. Another child,
Kelly Kramer, has been missing since December. Where are the children? And
what, if anything, can Ann do to get her son back?
