Teenage babysitter Essie Beal could not have noticed the stranger following her home, but she will never forgive herself for the moment she took her eyes off five-year-old Jeremy.
Detective Toby Parkman is faced with what cops call a cold case. But he realises that Essie may have more clues to the abduction than she thinks-and be in more danger than she knows.
For the kidnapper is chillingly closer to home than Toby could ever have imaginated.