DI Amy Winter knows wicked. She’s lived through it.

Four-year-old Ellen is usually snatched with a stranger in the inactive of night time. Her devastated mother, Nicole, receives four similar phials and a intimidating note inside a familiar scrawl that chills her towards the bone. But she usually knew this might happen. She’s been anticipating it for years .

According to the note, among the phials is poisoned. Nicole is definitely given a fatal challenge: if she drinks one, the sadistic kidnapper will notify the authorities of Ellen’s area. The sender promises to be Luka Volkov but Luka is meant to be dead, killed long ago in a open fire that haunts those involved.

DI Amy Winter season continues to be reeling through the discovery that she actually is the child of a serial killer, and her childhood trauma just makes her more determined to bring Ellen home. When another kid is taken, Amy finds herself within a race against time. To rescue the kids, must she look for help from the main one person she really wants to forget?