Lost Was the Key is a nonfiction, autobiographical account of a CPA, wife, and mother whose middle-class, Southern-Baptist world was shattered by unwanted contact with extraterrestrials. When Leah Haley began to investigate the subject of and "alien and " contact, agencies of the U.S. government and or military became so interested in her that they were willing to risk charges of burglary, kidnapping, and torture to learn what she knew and to silence her.