that Speak to the Soul

Workaholic mother-of-one Laura Haro, the West Coast bureau chief of Global Publishing Network, is close to losing both her marriage and her job when news breaks that 12-year-old Missy Morgan has been kidnapped from her front yard in an exclusive enclave outside of San Francisco. Laura’s unconventional reporting style sends the story viral, but her obsessive coverage alarms her employer and threatens her relationship with her husband Mark and their daughter Dylan. Beneath it all, the kidnapping has triggered Laura’s long-forgotten talent for gematria, the kabbalistic understanding of how connected numbers provide a deeper understanding of the inner workings of the universe. As the police shift their focus to Missy’s family, Laura can’t shake the feeling that the numbers indicate a different predator: the leader behind a burgeoning cult targeting teens. Her investigation leads her back to her ultra-Orthodox upbringing in Toronto and the death of her best friend Elisheva. As Laura rediscovers the person she was before work, marriage, and motherhood, she is forced to acknowledge how this tragedy and others are linked —a cycle only she can stop by saving this one missing girl.