Emily is the daughter of a well-to-do family that can provide her with all the comforts life has to offer. However, she has an independent personality, and rejects the generous but domineering control of her parents as she struggles to make her own way in the world. Becoming a pilot is part of her burning search for independence, along with an insatiable desire to fulfill a life-long dream and become a private detective. These two compulsive desires come to life when a human skeleton is discovered and she becomes involved in solving a four-year-old murder. Even finding the man of her dreams doesnat get in the way of her relentless pursuit of a series of clues that take her on a chilling trail through the workings of a religious sex cult, and down a twisted pathway of passion, violence, and murder.