A popular high school cheerleader from a rural Oklahoma town slips out her bedroom window after having a few angry words with her mother. She is never seen alive again.
A soldier comes home with his five year old son and finds his wife, an Army Officer stationed at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, brutally stabbed to death. While investigators try to piece together a sordid tale of late night parties, marital infidelity, and military conspiracies, they learn there were previous attempts on her life. Having faced death in war zones abroad, the greatest threat to her life may be much closer to home.
When a 38 year old Rhonda Boggs doesn't show up for work outside Columbus, Ohio, a concerned co-worker checking on her home is met by Rhonda's two year old daughter - unharmed but smeared with blood. Rhonda has been stabbed to death and her daughter may be the only witness. But can this traumatized toddler identify her mother's attacker?
A 31 year old mother of two Michelle Warner vanishes without a trace from her apartment in Houston that she shares with her ex-boyfriend. But this isn't the first time that she's disappeared. With no concrete proof that this time is any different, police and family have only a hunch that chapters from Michelle's checkered past have opened again.
Students at a small-town high school on the outskirts of Dallas suspect an undercover narc is posing as one of them. Theories and threats sound like typical teenage rumoring, until a high school student is found dead in an empty field. A Texas Ranger faces a long list of criminals and misfits who would want to harm a suspected narc.
When 26 year-old Robert Wiles, the promising heir to his family's successful aircraft service company disappears from his Lakeland, Florida office, the FBI have only one clue - a ransom demand from a mysterious "Group X". No witnesses and no forensic evidence surface, forcing investigators to consider that Group X might be a conspiracy within Wiles' company, or Robert Wiles himself.