The local grocer is executed, a world-renowned model is missing and Sheriff Dove Connelly is racing against time to find a connection. As the winter turns frigid, Dove's investigation heats up and he unravels a web of crime and power in his remote mountain community that threatens everything and everyone he loves. But it is Tessa Bradley, the missing woman, who haunts him. While she struggles to save herself, Dove uses every ounce of strength to find her. Neither of them know how little time she has left or that what they see before their eyes is not only deceptive, it is deadly.