and "David, something awful has happened to your mother and your father, and " said the stranger in the van. and "You're in great danger. You've got to come with us. . . . and "Rachel Stark is about to live every parent's nightmare, the strain of her troubled marriage intensified by a far greater her nine-year-old son, David, snatched off the street in broad daylight while on his way home from school. With no apparent motive. No immediate witnesses. And only one his red bicycle lying, as if dropped in a hurry, on the side of the road.Now Rachel must summon up all her strength and channel every ounce of rage, terror, and anguish into a desperate search for David. Her rocky relationship with her husband, Stephen, will face the ultimate challenge - and a callous act of betrayal.Into this precarious mix come Rachel's sister, Miranda, recently divorced and living under foot - a bombshell who conceals explosive secrets; the unfriendly Detective Gallagher, infuriating in his cold detachment - and unspoken attractions; and John Robinson of the Missing Child Foundation, a seeming saint who harbors his own hidden agenda.Then there is Rachel's uncanny connection to her son, both a blessing and a curse - a link that takes the form of fleeting visions, where a deathly white and terrified child cries out to a mother who cannot reach him. . . .A frantic search propelled by a tidal wave of panic. Real characters and raw emotions. Simmering resentments and shocking revelations. Katharine Clark weaves these elements into a richly compelling novel of a family in crisis in a story that twists and turns at a breakneck pace until its stunning conclusion.