Several missing girls, a dead body on the high moors and seemingly not a single lead ... In the high moors of northern England, the body of 14-year-old Saskia Morris, who disappeared a year earlier, is found. A short time later, another young girl goes missing, also 14-year-old Amelie Goldsby. The Scarborough police are alarmed. Is a serial killer on the loose? The media are quick to talk about the High Moor Killer, which increases the pressure on Detective Chief Inspector Caleb Hale. Detective Sergeant Kate Linville of Scotland Yard is also in the area to sell her former childhood home. By chance, she makes the acquaintance of Amelie's utterly distraught family, becoming an unwilling investigator in a drama that seems to have neither beginning nor end. And then suddenly, once again, there is no trace of a girl ...