Special agent FBI Laurel Snow was quite different pre -Christmas time, but when in the mountains near her hometown in Washington, they find traces of a serial murderer rampage, decides to go to the crime scene and start searching.
A peculiar young woman with an exceptional memory who has left home as a miraculous child at the age of eleven years old, thanks to knowledge of psychology, trying to put in the thinking of a rapist who is among the orderly citizens of the mountain town. The search complicates not only the harsh winter weather, but also the shadows of its own past and the uncontrollable attraction, which he feels to Huck Rivers, a former soldier and Ranger, who became his partner in the investigation.