New York writer Ridley Jones finds herself at the center of a global crime network when she picks up a few prints at a local photo lab, prints that reveal the presence of a mysterious, familiar, and supposedly dead figure with ties to her own past.
Sixty years after a book's publication, its author remembers his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl named for one of the book's characters seeks her namesake, as well as a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.
When a neighbor is found beaten to death after being involved in an accident with bike messenger Astrid Bell, Astrid and her roommates struggle against mounting terror and suspicion upon the discovery of yet another dead body.