 Sara Collins, second wife of the Junior Senator from Georgia, disappears at a gala reception honoring her work in children s education. The continuing efforts to find what has happened to her, which slowly reveal details of Sara s checkered past, are told from the points of view of the Senator, his children, an ambitious TV reporter and her cameraman/lover, and the FBI agents assigned to the case. The Agent In Charge, Graham Kelton, is himself haunted by a previous case that ended badly.