Conway retires from the FBI at the age of sixty. He takes with him copies of reports he'd come across when he had been investigating murders. He begins to track a particular hit man believed to be responsible for many of those murders. Brian Purger is a free-lance hit man. His survival depends on his cunning and strength. He finds peace only at his New Hampshire mountain retreat. Bill is the closest thing to a friend Purger has ever had. Bill is a college graduate and works for a large company. He is a widower with a young daughter and values family life above all else. He is in love with Leigh but is worried she will find out about his friendship with Purger. Leigh is divorced, a working mother with two children. She is insecure and wants more than anything to have her children grow up with a father figure in the home. She loves Bill and thinks he is the answer to making her family complete. Bill takes Leigh on a romantic skiing trip to a remote New England mountain and finds that a blizzard is closing in. Bill has never told Leigh that Purger also has a cabin on the mountain. The ski holiday soon intrudes into Purger's reclusive life. He tells Bill that he will eliminate the woman if she gets too close. He believes he will be doing his friend a favor. He threatens to kill Bill too if he gets in the way. Bill warns Leigh and tells her about Purger, but they cannot escape in the car because of the blizzard. They decide to ski down the mountain to safety. When Bill disappears during the trip, Leigh realizes she is alone on the mountain, with a professional killer in pursuit.

In a Washington, D.C. hospital, a U.S. Senator dies of an unknown infectious disease. In California, a college campus is under quarantine and hospitals are pushed to the breaking point. In Wyoming, the banks of streams are littered with dead fish and birds are falling from the sky. The genetically engineered plague has escaped its lab in Colorado and is now spreading without mercy from coast to coast, infecting any living host it can find. But before any cure can be found, the bacteria must be stabilized. The culprit seems to have a mind of its own as it continues to mutate and evolve within the host population.

The story is about a young man named Kenny who was only six when he was abducted and held prisoner in a basement apartment in Joe's farmhouse. But Kenny never knew where that farmhouse was located or even which state he'd been in. He was so young when he was taken that he couldn't even remember his family. Years after being released hundreds of miles away, he still can't forget his ordeal. He is determined to find Joe and have his justice, even if it means the end of his own life. No one else knows about Joe, and no one else would care as much about what happens to lost little boys. Kenny decides he must be the one who will take revenge for all the kids who had been lost in Joe's lair before him, and all the kids Joe has taken since Kenny left. He hopes he will have the courage to do what must be done.

A young woman is being stalked in Florida because a man believes she writes the steamy romance novels that have captivated him. The detective assigned to her case is captivated by the woman and soon he and the victim fall in love. When the police have no luck finding the stalker, she hires a private investigator. The stalker continues to watch and is upset that other people are becoming involved in her life. Soon, the private investigator goes missing. The stalker decides that the only way he will have the woman all to himself is to take her to his home. He is meticulous and plans every detail. When he is ready, he kidnaps her and takes her to his soundproof apartment on a private estate in the north. The clues the detective uncovers about the kidnapping take him from Florida to New York to Colorado. He is racing against time and believes that if he doesn't find them soon, both the woman and the private investigator will be dead.

In a Washington, D.C. hospital, a U.S. Senator dies of an unknown infectious disease. In California, a college campus is under quarantine and hospitals are pushed to the breaking point. In Wyoming, the banks of streams are littered with dead fish and birds are falling from the sky. The genetically engineered plague has escaped its lab in Colorado and is now spreading without mercy from coast to coast, infecting any living host it can find. But before any cure can be found, the bacteria must be stabilized. The culprit seems to have a mind of its own as it continues to mutate and evolve within the host population.

The story is about a young man named Kenny who was only six when he was abducted and held prisoner in a basement apartment in Joe's farmhouse. But Kenny never knew where that farmhouse was located or even which state he'd been in. He was so young when he was taken that he couldn't even remember his family. Years after being released hundreds of miles away, he still can't forget his ordeal. He is determined to find Joe and have his justice, even if it means the end of his own life. No one else knows about Joe, and no one else would care as much about what happens to lost little boys. Kenny decides he must be the one who will take revenge for all the kids who had been lost in Joe's lair before him, and all the kids Joe has taken since Kenny left. He hopes he will have the courage to do what must be done.

Conway retires from the FBI at the age of sixty. He takes with him copies of reports he'd come across when he had been investigating murders. He begins to track a particular hit man believed to be responsible for many of those murders. Brian Purger is a free-lance hit man. His survival depends on his cunning and strength. He finds peace only at his New Hampshire mountain retreat. Bill is the closest thing to a friend Purger has ever had. Bill is a college graduate and works for a large company. He is a widower with a young daughter and values family life above all else. He is in love with Leigh but is worried she will find out about his friendship with Purger. Leigh is divorced, a working mother with two children. She is insecure and wants more than anything to have her children grow up with a father figure in the home. She loves Bill and thinks he is the answer to making her family complete. Bill takes Leigh on a romantic skiing trip to a remote New England mountain and finds that a blizzard is closing in. Bill has never told Leigh that Purger also has a cabin on the mountain. The ski holiday soon intrudes into Purger's reclusive life. He tells Bill that he will eliminate the woman if she gets too close. He believes he will be doing his friend a favor. He threatens to kill Bill too if he gets in the way. Bill warns Leigh and tells her about Purger, but they cannot escape in the car because of the blizzard. They decide to ski down the mountain to safety. When Bill disappears during the trip, Leigh realizes she is alone on the mountain, with a professional killer in pursuit.