Haunted by her failures, Detective Sergeant Isabelle O’Connell is recalled to duty by DCI Alec Goddard to investigate the abduction of yet another child from her old home town. With the killer playing a game of cat and mouse they have only days in which to find the girl alive but they have very few clues, a whole town of suspects and a vast wilderness to search. For Isabelle, this case is already personal; for Alec, his best intentions to keep it purely professional soon dissolve. Their mutual attraction leaves them both vulnerable to their private nightmares nightmares that the killer ruthlessly exploits…