Detectives CeeCee Markovic and Larry Goodman are working to solve a puzzling missing persons case; one that turns out to be so much more than that when it becomes clear there isn't just one brother missing, but two. It also involves one of CeeCee's two best friends, and she is torn between following the legal system and loyalty to a friend who is more like a sister. Once the case is solved and put to bed, CeeCee and Larry can relax. Or so they thought.

Twenty-eight-year-old Samantha (Sam) lapses into an inexplicable coma after giving birth to a child covered with a veil.' Family secrets and long forgotten events are brought to the present as the family waits for Sam to come out of her coma; as they find a journal written when Sam was only a child, a journal that contains detailed personal and sometimes graphic information about their lives, written as if Sam had been there reading their minds. The following excerpt from Sam's journal was written when Sam was barely six years old: Saturday, May 11, 1957: Today, believe it or not, I visited...

Twenty-eight year old psychic Samantha Lopez had fallen hard for Michael Maxwell as much for the fact that she hadn't been able to read him as that he was good-looking, charming and made her feel beautiful and special. However, weeks after their marriage Sam realized that her husband's stark and lifeless house suited him perfectly. How could she have thought a man who could be happy in such surroundings would be a warm and loving husband? Was she so blinded by love that she couldn't see beyond the obvious? One of her grandfather's sayings came to mind. "The apple doesn't fall far from the...