She was gone. Where'd she go? It was sunrise in Maui, Hawaii. Homicide detective Jack Davis props himself up from the patio hammock and casts his eyes over the vast blue Pacific. There is no sign of his lovely wife, Sophie Lawrence, a newspaper executive. Jack and Sophie are in Hawaii celebrating their second wedding anniversary. Sophie recently completed a three-piece investigative report on child sex trafficking in the Pacific Northwest. She plans to publish the report upon her return to Salem, Oregon. But she never makes it home. Jack refuses to believe that she is dead-or that she left him. What ensues is a page-turning ride of whodunit crime solving, government corruption, and personal tragedy.