"When a fifteen-year-old baby-sitter vanishes with her towheaded charge, Maddy Blake, like the rest of her sleepy, suburban town, is shaken. When the teenager's naked body is recovered and a manhunt for the missing toddler turns up nothing, Maddy, like the entire community of Taylorsville, is horrified. She follows the case with some detachment - until the police arrive at her door."--BOOK JACKET. "Her husband, Doug, has become the prime suspect. Recently acquitted of sexual misconduct charges levied by the shy daughter of the local police chief, he becomes the object of a father's vendetta. Once again, Maddy rallies to her husband's defense - only to find herself questioning the innocence of the moody, self-absorbed man who shares her bed."--BOOK JACKET.