Inspector Thom Brady can't understand why schoolteacher Mary Seeton won't confide in him about her recent abduction. There is no doubt that she'd been forcibly taken and somehow escaped, but she refuses to tell him anything about her experience. In order to escape her mentally challenged kidnapper, Mary made a terrible promise, one she can't forgive herself for. The lives of the children in her class depend on her keeping that secret. But with super-sexy Thom hounding her, soon her abductor figures she broke her promise and no one is safe. Racing against time the couple risks their lives and their growing relationship to catch the desperate and dangerous kidnapper.