Retired Homicide Detective Jack Handler is asked by his nephew's teacher if he would investigate her sister's disappearance. Sugar Island girl Jill Talbot, who was vacationing in Paris with her boyfriend, seems to have disappeared, and neither her boyfriend, Paul Martin, nor the Police Nationale, have been able to locate her. Unable to accomplish anything through emails, text messages and phone calls, Jack jumps on an international flight to Paris. What he finds there is shocking.