Publisher's Synopsis
Ron, an appliance repairman, spots nine-year-old Rachel one day outside her school. Though Rachel is a stranger to him, he convinces himself that she is his responsibility. His feelings for her are at once tender, misguided and chillingly possessive. At all costs, he knows he must protect her from "bad" men - bad men who want to harm her When Rachel disappears one summer night, her mother Celia is stricken with guilt and terror. As the media coverage of the abduction escalates, Celia longs for the return of her angelically beautiful daughter.
