Twelve years after Elizabeth Fitch rebelled against her controlling mother, drinking at a nightclub and allowing a strange man to lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive, a freelance programmer known as Abigail Lowery lives on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks. Her logical mind, her secretive nature, and her unromantic viewpoints leave police chief Brooks Gleason fascinated but frustrated; and walking into the sights of very powerful and dangerous men.