Eve Elliot is a successful therapist, a loving wife, a mother deeply invested in her family - but her happiness is built on a lie. When she was a lonely, vulnerable young woman, a single decision led to a dark night of unimaginable consequences. Now, forced to confront her past, she faces another terrible choice: reveal to her family that she is not who she seems, or allow a man to take the blame for a crime she knows he did not commit.

Corinne Elliot has always known she was different: the only redhead in a family of brunettes, the paralyzing shyness that contrasts with her sister's vivaciousness, the many fears - of highways, of bridges, of public spaces - that constrict her daily life. Still, she's found some measure of happiness - until the day she turns on the television and finds her mother's image on the screen.

Now, as the past explodes into the present, Corinne must confront the secrets she has always intuited, and find answers from the one person who knows the truth - a woman named CeeCee Wilkes, who disappeared years ago..