When two year old Ryan Stark goes missing from a high street merry-go-round, his distraught mother reports him kidnapped and a massive police hunt is launched to find the missing toddler.
When single parent Kayla Stark reports her two-year old son Ryan missing suspicion falls on the child's estranged father Jimmy but Ronnie finds inconsistencies in Kayla's story and learns that her violent,controlling new boyfriend Rob Whitely resented Ryan and Jimmy. Would Kayla have killed her child for the sake of such a wastrel or did Whitely himself do away with the toddler? New senior prosecutor Jake is determined to try them both for murder.—don @ minifie-1