On a cold December day in a northern countryside, a strange woman appears on the doorstep of the farmhouse Hugh Mercer is renting, warning him that a local named Elizabeth Goode is about to vanish under mysterious circumstances. Despite her ominous pleas for help, the former NYPD detective remains too preoccupied with the past hes trying to escape back home in America and his affair with local police officer Alice Morrow. So, he simply dismisses the womans dire prediction.But soon this strange womans desperate concerns become reality and Mercer begins to realize that there is more to the seemingly ordinary Alice and the easy-going northern town shes from. As Mercer and Alice work together to unravel this crime, they discover the dark history of all those involved and the desperation of those seeking revenge when forgiveness is not possible.|A woman vanishes from a café in a northern town and all the witnesses have different accounts. Local police officer Alice Morrow and former New York homicide detective Hugh Mercer, troubled by their own need for forgiveness and justice, uncover a bizarre crime.
Genre: Mystery
Genre: Mystery
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