Children disappear all the time. It is in the news every day. Where do they go? What happens to them? Who has taken them? While covering a story for his tabloid newspaper, reporter Bentley Noble accidentally stumbles onto something else entirely . . . a story about something so unspeakable, he does not know if anyone will believe it . . . a story that pulls him down into the depths of evil and depravity and threatens his very life.With the help of a bestselling true-crime writer, Noble descends into the dark world of human trafficking, where fear and pain are tools of control and innocence is sold to the highest bidder. As a handful of good and decent people try to combat a monstrously powerful and all too real evil, some lives will be shattered, others will be ended . . . but none will be the same.