Embers is a supernatural crime thriller. Fifteen year old Timmy Biggins, a known trouble maker, is picked up wearing nothing but a pair of boxer shorts and socks on one of the foulest nights of the year by two young police women. His bizarre story will change their lives and beliefs forever. Inspector Grizz Adams of the Grampian police force finds himself down in England as part of an exchange scheme when the strangest case in his life unfolds before him. He becomes embroiled in the race to discover the whereabouts of Mo Morrison, a fellow Scot, who mysteriously vanished at a book signing in Bradford and put one of the most prolific serial killers in British history away for the rest of his life.