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A parent's worst nightmare...and a police chief's as well!
As dusk settles on Chief of Police Judith Anderson's first Founders Day celebration in her adopted city, she's breathing out a sigh and itching to get out of her dress uniform. Her relief is short-lived, though, when a mother's scream cuts the dusk air. Her toddler is missing.

Judith's department springs into action, but there's no sign of the child—just a blood-chilling discovery. A stuffed bear, found near where she disappeared and wearing the little girl's pink sunglasses, suggests a sinister motive rather than an accident.

Judith oversees a team of law enforcement officers from all over northern Florida who comb the city, but she's struggling with multiple distractions, including flashbacks to her own cousin's abduction decades ago. Suspects for the toddler's kidnapping are plentiful, yet their leads aren't panning out. And with every passing hour, the odds of finding the little girl unharmed diminish.

Can Judith and her team find the child in time, or will she have to face the heart-wrenching reality that this little one, like her cousin, may never be found...or at least not alive?