Mike Whitmore's wife has been missing for two days when her name finally lights up his phone.
I'm ready to talk.
Then another message:
Our spot.
Mike knows exactly where she means. Cedar Point Park-the waterfront place where he proposed twenty-two years earlier, when their marriage was still something neither of them could imagine losing.
He goes alone.
By morning, Mike is dead.
Detective Erin Kelleher inherits a case that appears to point in one direction. Nikki left home after a bitter argument. Her marriage was already fractured by an affair she refused to explain. Her phone brought Mike to the place where he was killed.
But Nikki is still missing.
And the more Erin reconstructs the final days of the Whitmore marriage, the less the obvious story holds together.
A husband searching for the identity of another man. A wife protecting a secret she was finally ready to end. A daughter caught between two parents she still loves. And a family history filled with people who knew enough to make one simple message believable.
Someone knew Mike would come to Cedar Point.
Someone knew what our spot meant.
And before Mike left home, he sent his daughter one final promise:
I'll call you after.