Danielle Ross’s life keeps slipping out of control. First, she must abandon her education to take over her ill father’s detective agency. Then, while pursuing a new case, Dani becomes a victim herself. She awakens in a strange place, and is  surrounded by eleven other people. Among them are a doctor, a dancer, a German submarine commander, and an ex-convict--all clueless as to why they are there. The culprit relentlessly insists they are all linked by a single sinister secret, and their survival depends on them confessing to it. It’s up to Dani to find the link that binds these seeming strangers....