Lori Rader-Day

Recovering from being shot by a student she'd never met, Chicago sociology professor Amelia Emmet, desperate to know why she was targeted, gets some investigative help from her teaching assistant and together they must live through the darkest hours of their lives to find the truth.

Using her skills as a handwriting analyst to assist a local murder case, Anna identifies disturbing parallels between the crime and her own struggles to protect her troubled teen son from an abusive ex.