It was exhilaration followed by agony. Detec-

tive Sergeant Peter Decker of the LAPD

had just witnessed the birth of his healthy,

strapping daughter only to see his wife, Rina,

suddenly whisked away into the emergency

room with complications from her long, hard

labor. For a while, it was touch and go. But just

as things start to calm down and Rina seems to

b e on the road to recovery, a different tragedy

strikes. Another family is thrown into an

agony that only new parents can know--Baby

Girl Rodriguez has been stolen from the hospi-

tal nursery. The family s ordeal is Peter s as

well, because it is the very nursery where his

daughter peacefully slept that same night. The

head nurse, Marie Bellson, seems to be miss-

ing as well. Despite his exhaustion, Peter

makes it his professional and personal mission

to find Baby Girl Rodriguez and the nurse who

allegedly stole her.

Bellson and the infant have vanished with-

out a trace. Nobody in the hospital saw them

leave, not even Decker s own grown daughter,

Cindy, who was tending to her half sister that