Cruel Mother

Meg Halloran's romantic getaway with longtime love, policeman Vince Gutierrez, looks less appealing when Vince reluctantly introduces the third member of their party, his spike-haired, foul-mouthed niece, Cass. An accident with another car abruptly ends their plans. Then Meg and Cass are inexplicably abducted, held in a secluded wilderness cabin in Idaho's panhandle. Meg desperately seeks answers-and a means of escape - unaware her fate lies with strangers: a terminally ill sixties radical who recently confessed to murder; his wife, emerging from seclusion to reunite the dying man with their young daughter; and a lawyer, calculating one of the biggest scores of his circumspect career...