Todd Travis

In 1989, a school bus filled with young children disappears. It drove into a tunnel, a tunnel with no exits, and did not drive out. Witnesses saw the bus go in. No one saw it come out....

Young beautiful women are disappearing. Different types, with different backgrounds, most with a lot of debt, few friends, and no close family to speak of....

They call it The Heartland Child Murders. Everyone else calls it a nightmare. Locked doors don't stop him. He leaves no trace behind. He only takes little girls. His nickname: The Iceman....

Emma Kane is abducted by armed mercenaries and told that unless she finds the missing daughter of a ruthless billionaire, her partner and lover, Jacob Thorne, will die of thirst trapped in a hidden room. She has 11 days before his fluid runs out to crack a three-year-old cold case....