Unemployed David Pauley applies to a Craigslist ad offering a tantalizing lifeline just as the recession hits. The job sounds perfect: a live-in caretaker for a ranch in Ohio. But just as soon as he is hired, he disappears - and he isn't the first.

After a troubled childhood, 13-year old Christina Long's life seems to be on the up and up. Now living with her beloved Aunt Shelly, Christina is a popular honor student and cheerleader. But when her online life is revealed, it tells a more tragic story.

36-year old Indle King courts beautiful 18-year old Anastasia Solovieva online. She travels from her home in Kyrgyztan to Seattle to marry him, but her American dream turns into a nightmare when she realizes that Indle is not the man she thought he was.