Martha and Jeff are desperate. Stephan, their nine-year-old child, has vanished. In 2036, he is just one of the many children who have disappeared over the last decade from a peaceful region of Vermont. Jeff calls on his friend Ryan, a member of the FBI's elite tactical rescue unit whose approach is based on tangible facts and ground research. Martha recruits Leila, a young woman with perceptive abilities and telepathic skills. Friction between Leila and Ryan runs high, but as the sinister nature of Stephan's kidnapping is discovered, they finally make a truce.Chasing a link they uncover to a massive corporate cover-up, their quest to rescue Stephan and the other kids takes them to remote locations in Alaska and Montana. They discover that these child abductions go far beyond what they could have imagined-and that finding Stephan is just the beginning.