While at a charity event in Manhattan, she meets and falls in love with 22-year-old Daniel Madison Ransom.

Along with his mother, the insane Catherine Ransom, Daniel wants to reveal to the world the real killer, whom they believe is Hollings Jayquith himself.

In another strand of the plot, a young man who goes by the name Alex arrives in Connecticut seeking to avenge the murder of his brother.

Annabel and Daniel meet again at their mutual friends Venice Pierce and Michael Theil’s wedding in Litchfield, Connecticut.

After a kidnapping and rescue, it develops that Annabel's father is innocent of the murder, and the story ends happily.