Abbie DiAngelo, a divorcee with a small son, has found contentment as a chef running her own restaurant. Life is good until her stepbrother Ian -- just out of prison -- arrives on her doorstep ready to implicate her mother in a 25-year-old murder. When lan is then found murdered and Abbie's son is kidnapped, she has no one to turn to but Detective John Ryan -- a man who does not trust her.