Detective Evie Blackwell's new assignment to the elite Missing Persons Task force puts her and her new partner under pressure from public scrutiny to solve two very different cases involving people missing for several years.

When Evie Blackwell arrives in Carin, Illinois, it's to help launch a new task force dedicated to reexamining unsolved crimes across the state. Spearheading this trial run, she will work with the sheriff's department on a couple of its most troubling missing-persons cases. As she reexamines old evidence to pull out a few tenuous new leads, she unearths a surprising connection... possibly to a third cold case. Evie's determined to solve the cases...

Nothing seems beyond a doubt when Bree opens a cold-case file...with clues too close for comfort. Arson. Theft. Murder. When Bree Nichols discovers a corpse in her own basement, a whirlwind investigation ushers an unbidden danger to all she holds dear. Wihout safe haven in her lighthouse home--or in the arms of her new love--the young widow struggles to free her family from the tentacles of an age-old crime that strikes at the heart of Rock Harbor....