The birth of their baby girl has filled Rina Lazarus and her husband, LAPD Homicide Detective Peter Decker, with joy mingled with sorrow, since complications have ensured that they can have no more children. And when a respected nurse vanishes along with a newborn from the nursery, Peter and Rina fear for the safety of their own precious child, especially when the missing nurse's car is found at the bottom of a cliff with a corpse inside.