When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a girl disappears in the aftermath, neighbor Sarah Tucker becomes obsessed with finding her and enlists the help of private investigator Zoë Boehm. Zoë and Sarah suddenly find themselves in a complex conspiracy that reveals that people long believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead.
This crime thriller tracks five pivotal but non-consecutive days in a mysterious missing person's case involving a beautiful young mother of three. Leanne vanishes, and then two of her children go missing. Did Leanne abandon her children, or was the family abducted? A team of investigators are determined to find out.