While running errands with her eight-year-old son, Garrett, Deputy Sheriff Krysta Jamison lets him out of her sight for no more than a moment. In that moment, her little boy is kidnapped. She gives chase, but quickly loses them in traffic. Krysta initiates a desperate, relentless searchonly to find him too late: her little boy has been murdered.

The suspected killer is the son of a powerful congressman who wont let his kid go to prison. The congressman pulls some strings, and soon the man is back on the streets. Enraged not only at the death of her son but also at the fact that his killer has evaded punishment, when the killer smiles at Krysta she impulsively attacks the killer and beats him into a coma, now Krysta is the criminal.

What was once a happy, fulfilling life has been broken into shards of torment. Special Agent Jeremy Wolfe wants to protect Krysta, but the killers congressman father is out for revenge. Krysta is kidnapped by four men who mean her nothing but harm. Only time will tell whether she will surviveor if she even wants to do so.