The car door ripped open. The crushing blow to the head. Hands yanking him from the vehicle. His girlfriend’s piercing scream. For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. With no trace of Ali after she is abducted, a cloud of suspicion hangs over him, though he is never charged. Trying to put his past behind him, Ryan changes his name and enters law school. It’s on a summer trip to Italy that he gets the call: his missing car has finally been found, submerged in a lake in his hometown. But inside the car are two dead men. The only trace of Ali is a cryptic note in her handwriting stating ‘If something happens to me’. Reeling from the news, Ryan sees the man who has haunted his nightmares since Ali was taken. But how is that possible, so far from home? His search for answers leads him to England and France, but the truth may lie in the shape of two very different people back in the USA.