A new original story in the bestselling and award-winning master of suspense, featuring Colter Shaw.

Colter Shaw is a career ‘reward-seeker,’ building his living locating missing people and collecting incentive money in come back. In the course of his search for a missing woman, he trips the police train station in the small Kansas town of Humble, and, can be pulled into a puzzling case. A guy is holding a hostage in a lakeside cabin, and the Humble police need Shaw’s experience and know-how to assess the situation, and the captor’s motives. As Shaw starts negotiating, he begins to realize that nothing about the hostage situation is as it seems, like the hostage himself.