When a 16-year-old girl goes missing in the aftermath of a kidnapper's escape from prison, Aroostook County Sheriff's deputy Lizzy Snow consults the fugitive's embittered former captive, who blames the family who failed to rescue her a decade earlier.

Jake finds the corpse of a world-famous corporate trader who used to be a local boy, and when her friend Ellie confesses to the murder, Jake smells a cover-up and investigates as cops and journalists swarm into snowbound Eastport.