While skiing with their friends near Cloudcroft, New Mexico, Sharon and Ryan Salazar stumble upon the body of a missing teenager. The girl's friends might hold the key to her disappearance, but they've made a pledge to keep silent.

Meanwhile, in a mission of her own making, the obnoxious Alvina Piffle tracks down suspicious activity that leads in another direction.

In conjunction with local authorities, Sharon and Ryan find themselves untangling seemingly disjointed threads to the mystery. Little by little, those links come together in a chilling and unexpected solution to the story.