They met while kayaking and immediately liked each other: Lilly Martin, editor of a women's magazine, and Ben Tierney, travel journalist. And six months later, under fateful circumstances, they met high in the mountains and found themselves locked in a cottage in a snowstorm. They are still attracted to each other, but the further, the more Lilly is overcome by suspicions... This charming handsome man is definitely hiding something, and the entire area is living in fear: over the past two years, in the small town of Cleary, lost in the mountains of North Carolina, Five women disappeared without a trace. Lilly suspects that the same question is being asked by the FBI agents investigating the case, and by her ex-husband Dutch Burton, the local police chief, and by all the residents of the town who organized a manhunt on the first suspicion...