Detective Inspectors Michael and Barbra Redgrave are planning a surprise journey through Europe for their two teenage twin boys Nathaniel and Jonathon. It was going to be their first holiday of a lifetime as Living in the rural town of Dumont in Argyll and Bute in Scotland often their holidays involved hot destinations, package holidays to Cyprus, sunny Spain and Portugal, this year they all craved something different. Brady Thomas Smelling a brutal child killer has gained his freedom after ten years of being locked away from society with one thing on his mind vengeance In response to a grievance with the two detectives who took away his freedom, as one of those detectives was Michael Redgrave. Without further warning the large black oil tanker that Brady Thomas Smelling is driving starts ramming the Redgrave's Fuji white Range Rover Evoque into the dark tunnel walls repeatedly, crushing it until it becomes apparent upon further inspection that they are no living survivors. When the emergency services arrive with their specialized cutting equipment they find that there is only one survivor who is in a critical condition. Against all the odds Jonathon Redgrave survives remembering very little of the accident until his dead twin brother comes to his rescue in the brightly coloured spiritual form as a ghost vowing to help and protect his brother from the ruthless killer who now wants to take Jonathon's life and will go to any extreme to fulfil his mission.

Four teenage girls suddenly go missing without a trace in various locations based in the North and the East of England in a short period of several months apart. One of these girls, Gracie Peterson, is found alive in a small wooden box on an abandoned industrial estate, with injuries that are so gruesome even the paramedics cringe in anticipation whilst trying to free her, after Gracie had spent eight horrific weeks in captivity. Detective Inspector Marty Bride and his specialist team of detectives, forensic investigators and psychological profiles become chilling aware that there is a brutal serial killer on the loose who enjoys leaving them various clues to his real identity.