Chicago detective Alec Buchanan is assigned as a bodyguard to hotel heiress Regan Hamilton Madison after she has been sent a graphic crime-scene photo. Regan thinks that the trouble started when she agreed to help a friend expose a self-help guru. The heiress decides to go to one of the guru's meetings, and matters become worse when she writes down her private revenge fantasies as instructed and the people on her list start getting killed.