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Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. It's now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in. In that year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about the case. She does interviews and when we meet her, she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. On the plane back, she's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.
It's tempting but in Isabelle's sleep-deprived state, she's not sure who she can trust. She and her husband, Ben, split up after Mason's disappearance and he's now told her that he's seeing someone else. She could turn to her parents but there's a problem there too. As a child, Izzy had sleep problems and a history of sleepwalking. There was an ''incident'' in the family; she always thought that she might have been responsible and that her father, a congressman, had smoothed it over with the local sheriff. It also leaves her wondering if she might have had something to do with Mason's disappearance.
