There is nothing Cara Crenston won't do to bring her three globe-trotting children home to New York for the holidays, however falling in love with a charming Frenchman on a trip to Paris and crossing paths with a Mexican smugglers ring whose family head shares her passion for quality ceramics, puts a crimp in her plans. Cara is unknowingly drawn into a complicated web that involves her unsuspecting children in a sinister string of events. Each family member has their own brush with the malevolent smugglers, who think nothing of leaving an inky trail of dead bodies across the globe.