You could be gone in LA for a long time before anyone considers it a problem When drama students Dylan Meserve and Michaela Brand vanished no one seemed to notice. Three days later Michaela, naked and bruised, flags down a motorist on a remote mountain road. The story the young couple tells is horrifying. Abducted by a gun-wielding stranger they were bound, blindfolded and beaten. However soon suspicions about their story take seed, particularly when a shop assistant identifies them as the couple who purchased rope identical to the one found at the crime scene - three days before their alleged abduction. When the couple finally admit the hoax, psychologist Alex Delaware is asked to evaluate Michaela who is laying all the blame at Dylan s feet. Months pass, and the case fades from public and police scrutiny. Then Mikki Brand is savagely murdered. And Dylan is missing once again.