A young woman named Molly Saint hires Greg and Jill McKenzie to check her husband's background, then disappears. It starts them on a tangled trail of deceit, with Jill soon turning up a close family connection. Complicating matters further, Greg gets drawn into a troubling police investigation stemming from the assassination of the Federal Reserve Board chairman at a Nashville hotel. The deeper the McKenzies dig, the more deadly illusions they face. Nothing appears to be what it seemed at first, and the fear for Molly's life grows.