Audrey Toller, a recent college graduate who lives with her mother, becomes determined to find the father who abandoned them years before. There are several barriers in her quest, however. For example, her mother won't give Audrey any information about him, and the young woman follows a trail that begins with her father's former lawyer and proceeds step by step—as Audrey interviews her father's former acquaintances and uses her own ingenuity to find answers—to a nearly fatal event in Singapore and a just-in-time rescue by a kind stranger. Intriguingly, he is a stranger to Audrey, but Audrey may not be a stranger to him. During the story, Audrey's emotional, physical, and mental resources experience a multitude of situations that change her and others' perceptions of her.

The story, which is wrapped in several types of bizarre situations, contains compelling, believable characters and numerous backstories that keep the reader turning pages greedily. The author also includes some minor mysteries in the narrative. For instance, why hasn't Audrey's mother told the young woman anything about her father? Some of the characters have assumed she has and are puzzled when Audrey tells them that her mother won't discuss him, their past, or why he left. What were the reasons for the man's strange behavior of years before and his disappearance? Why are some people eager to talk about him, while others try to avoid all memories and facts about him? This intriguing mystery is part The Parent Trap and part Mission: Impossible, with, perhaps, a shade of A Wrinkle In Time tossed in for good measure. Readers will undoubtedly enjoy it.

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