Cathy Mills is only a teenager when her fairytale marriage to Robert Walden turns into a nightmare. Still, it is not until she sees a police sketch of her husband that she realizes only she knows the true identity of the monster authorities are hunting.

Jennifer Winter accepts Cristobal Palacio's marriage proposal out of necessity. She believes that he understands that theirs is a marriage of convenience, not love. Then he makes her his prisoner, and she realizes escape will come at a terrible cost.