A skeleton is unearthed in a suburban Auckland backyard. A woman disappears. A teenager is abandoned. These events change the trajectory of Tova Tan's life, which she is slowly rebuilding after her involvement in a traumatic kidnapping. Reluctantly, she agrees to look after the teenager, Lonnie, while police track down the girl's mother. Hours turn into days. When a link is made between the missing woman and the body in the garden, Tova is drawn into the police murder investigation, once more bringing her into contact with Detective Finn McIntosh, a man she thought she would never see again. (Crime Fiction)