It was supposed to be the safest room in the house.

Meg Altman is at a crossroads. Suffering through a painful divorce from her husband, pharmaceuticals millionaire, Stephen Altman, Meg moves from their suburban home in Greenwich, New York and buys an Upper West Side Manhattan townhouse for herself and her eleven-year-old daughter, Sarah. She intends to go back to school, raise her child and start a new life. But the panic she feels at starting over pales in comparison to her fear and desperation when intruders break into her new home.