Four years ago Rachael O’Connor stood by the side of the road waiting for her lover, Victor, to pick her up and take her away with him to start a new life. When he didn’t show up she assumed that he got cold feet and ran back to his ex wife and the kids he adored. Now she suddenly finds out that the man she thought had abandoned her has in fact been missing the whole time. His family haven’t heard from him and his housekeeper let’s slip that the last time she saw him he’d been behaving strangely. Convinced that something terrible happened to her old lover, Rachael turns to her friend Kerr for help. Kerr Macray is a private investigator who takes on cases that nobody else wants and solves them. But this one might prove a problem because the trail has long gone cold, Victor’s family can’t be asked for any information and his assistant can’t afford to pay him because she herself hasn’t yet been paid. As Kerr and Rachael dig into the past and try to unravel the mystery surrounding Victor’s disappearance they receive financial assistance from an unlikely source, but the offer comes with strings attached.