Linwood Barclay The worst day of Tim Blakes life started out with him making breakfast for his seventeen-year-old daughter Sydney. Syd was staying with him while she worked a summer job - even if he wasnt entirely sure what her job at the Just Inn Time motel actually was - and Tim hoped this quality father-daughter time would somehow help her deal with his divorce from Susanne. When she didnt arrive home at her usual time, he thought shed probably gone to the mall to hang with her friends. When she didnt answer her phone he began to worry. When she didnt come home at all, he began to panic. And when the people at the Just Inn Time said they had no Sydney Blake working at the motel and never had, he began to see his life going into freefall. Only one thing has him convinced the worst hasnt already happened: the fact that some very scary people seem just as eager as he is to find her. The question is: whos going to find her first?