It is 1985: a man runs for his life
- exhausted wounded hunted remorselessly by a woman assassin known only as The Head Hunter. At the end he has just enough energy to spit in her face. 2001: sixteen-year-old Kerry Lumsdon runs across the same terrain. She runs to win & she runs to forget. When a headless body is found in the wastelands of the Seahills Estate Detective Inspector Lorraine Hunt is called in to investigate. Kerry & Lorraine different ages & from different worlds come together when Claire Lumsdon Kerrys sister is violently kidnapped
- the fourth in a series of abductions of young girls. Headstrong wilful & convinced the police cant help Kerry sets out on a frantic search of her own. But her hunt takes her to a world she never knew existed: a violent underworld; a sixteen year old murder; & finally to secrets about her own past which her mother hoped shed never have to face. & all the time the clock is ticking for Claire.