A young couple's 11-year-old daughter, Ivy, is repeatedly beseiged by frenzied behavior and nightmares of being burned alive inside a car. A stranger tells them that she is possessed by the soul of his daughter who died in a fiery crash minutes before Ivy was born.

Dr. Alex Cross is back to work the case of a girl who was kidnapped from her Washington, D.C. school, a place where senators and diplomats send their children. Its up to Alex to profile the kidnapper and find the girl.