A college student in Wales is abducted by a madman, and a police detective races the clock to find her before it's too late . . .

Emma didn't know how long he hid in the large Victorian wardrobe to the side of her single bed. She didn't know how long he peered between the two heavy oak doors, and watched as she slowly drifted into fitful sleep. She didn't know what time he pushed the doors open and crept toward her in the darkness of the night.

Now, Detective Inspector Gravel finds himself faced with a difficult case when this local nineteen-year-old university student is abducted and imprisoned by a sadistic serial killer, who has already tortured and killed at least five young women. And time is running out to save her . . .