A mother, enduringly traumatized by the disappearance of her three-year old daughter 15 years ago, has cut herself off from her ex-husband and son. However, when a troubled young woman with a checkered past enters her life, old psychic wounds painfully resurface, as does the illogical and increasingly irrational hope that the young woman may be the daughter she lost so long ago.

Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives.

Abruptly abandoned by her husband in a country completely foreign to her, Colombian native Mariana struggles to take care of herself and her two young children on the unforgiving streets of New York City.

Heather Kurtman, bestselling relationship author wants out of her contract with her soon to be ex-husband & publisher. Unexpectedly falling for her editor only complicates the situation.