Because evidence indicates that his wife left him willingly, Mark Rubin, an Orthodox Jew, contacts P.I. Tess Monaghan to help him find his missing family. Despite Mark's reluctance to give her any information, Tess locates Natalie Rubin and her three children, and discovers that a man is traveling with them. An intricate web of betrayal and vengeance begins to unravel, rage leads to desperation, and soon the lives of the three children dangle by a thread. Edgar Award finalist 2005. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2004.