Beth Rivers is known to the world as Elizabeth Fairchild. For years she has been writing thrillers, and one day—almost like it was straight out of a novel—she is kidnapped by a deranged fan. Beth manages to escape, but the horror she has endured leaves her with amnesia.
In search of peace, the writer ends up in the town of Benedict, Alaska, but even there nothing goes smoothly: just before her arrival, the already small population shrank by one person. Linda Rafferty’s death was ruled a suicide, though even the sheriff doesn’t believe it.
Beth waits for her stalker to be caught and decides to dive into an investigation of Linda’s death—but the case awakens memories of her own kidnapping…