Seventeen-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl and the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home that night, and three months quickly pass without word from the girl, the community assumes the worst. Caught tells the story of a missing girl, the community stunned by her loss, the predator who may have taken her, and the reporter who suddenly realises she can't trust her own instincts about this case or the motives of the people around her.