When Leigh Jackson disappeared, her husband, Ray, seemed clueless: Has she run away? Was she a crime victim? Ray himself is enigmatic: a brilliant but obsessive architect, secretive yet devoted to exposing the truth. And while he begins his quest to discover what Leigh disappearance may means—and how it may be tied to his peripatetic childhood— Leigh's best friend begins investigating Ray ... an investigation that cannot seem to open the locked doors of his past.