As Alex struggles to keep her dark past hidden from her husband and daughter, a reporter is found murdered. Now the primary suspect, Alex must elude police while trying to uncover the identity of the killer.

When a surrogate grows too fond of the baby she carried for a young couple, they try to disengage from her. But the surrogate starts poisoning the mother (with no danger to the child) in a scam that will keep the surrogate around, and then, when mom is gone, the surrogate will get the child, the husband and the suburban life she so earnestly covets.