When Ashley Beck-Ford, age 21, discovers her biological mother, Sara Hillman, on the internet, she is both astonished and overjoyed... While Ashley is eager to reconnect with her long-lost mother, the process is far more perilous than she could have expected. Sara's husband is assassinated not long after they first meet. Ashley soon finds herself entangled in a web of lies and deceit, and she isn't sure if her mother is innocent or guilty of the murder she witnessed in the first place.