On Day One he takes his first victim. On Day Five he's coming back for her son... At the end of a family holiday, Emily Parker makes a last minute trip to the supermarket...and doesn't return. Finding her car abandoned in the car park, her husband makes a desperate plea to the local authorities — but his only help comes from retired FBI profiler, John Geary. Geary is struck by similarities with a cold case he is researching for a book. Hesuspects that a serial killer has resurfaced to reenact a seven-year ritual and fears that, if he's right, Emily Parker is not the only intended victim. And that on the fifth day of Emily's abduction the killer will strike again at his true target — Emily Parker's seven-year-old son...