When a pregnant eighteen-year-old girl is brutally stabbed by a suspected serial killer, she flashes back on her life and all the experiences that had led to this horrific scenario, beginning with her long-lost love. Just before Evelyn Smithson dies, her baby girl is delivered via cesarean section, and the orphaned child is quickly adopted. Thirteen years later, the adolescent girl becomes plagued by nightmares of a murdered pregnant woman she had never seen or met, spiraling her into a dark depression, and so her parents take her to a psychiatrist. Through hypnotherapy, thirteen-year-old Cassandra Barth learns that the murdered woman in her dreams is her birth mother, and a composite sketch reveals her killer to be someone other than the convicted serial killer. With Cassandra’s help, the cold-case murder investigation of Evelyn Smithson is reopened and publicized, but now the race is on for authorities to find her mother’s real killer before the killer finds Cassandra.