Paul and Molly Waites are frantic with worry. Their thirteen-year-old son, Jason, has been abducted somewhere between his home and his local football club. As Victoria and her team take on the case, they discover Jason’s inner world. With a turbulent homelife and his trust in the wrong people, he is a very vulnerable young man. In the vastness of the beautiful and rugged Yorkshire Dales, it’s easy to hide secrets in dark places.

Time is running out and Victoria has her own troubles. The serial killer and psychopath, Jonathan Fahey, has escaped from prison, and as she was the one who put him away, it’s Victoria he’s after, and he is hungry for revenge. Newlywed to pathologist Dr Miriam DeSilva and expecting their child, Victoria has a family to protect too. But how can she prevent such evil?

As the North Yorkshire Major Incident team dive into Jason’s case, they uncover shocking revelations, including a pattern of abductions in the past. After being shelved back in the nineties, it is time to re-open The Muffin Man Enquiry. But when the team digs deeper, they discover levels of corruption at heights they could never have imagined. Their quest to find Jason Waites is only the beginning.

One thing quickly becomes clear – powerful people don’t take well to being exposed.