DI Amy Winter knows evil. She’s lived through it. Four-year-old Ellen is snatched by a stranger in the dead of night.Her devastated mother, Nicole, receives four identical phials and a threatening note in a familiar scrawl that chills her to the bone.But she always knew this would happen. She’s been expecting it for years . . . According to the note, one of the phials is poisoned.Nicole is given a deadly challenge: if she drinks one, the sadistic kidnapper will notify the police of Ellen’s location.The sender claims to be Luka Volkov but Luka is supposed to be dead, killed long ago in a fire that haunts all those involved. DI Amy Winter is still reeling from the discovery that she is the daughter of a serial killer, and her childhood trauma only makes her more determined to bring Ellen home.When another child is taken, Amy finds herself in a race against time.To rescue the children, must she seek help from the one person she wants to forget?
