Ex-cop Vance Courage is lying low at a luxury Texas ranch when 15-year-old Caitlin Fleming goes for an early morning run...and vanishes into the desert.
His partner, Lauren Gold, is certain the cartels along the U.S.-Mexico border took her. But the crime scene defies every rule. The girl's footprints simply stop. There are no tire tracks. No signs of a struggle. Nothing.
Then Vance realizes he may have seen something at the exact moment she disappeared-something that looked a lot like a UFO. In Southwest Texas, a region thick with private aerospace companies and black-budget research, that possibility is no longer so easy to dismiss.
When Native American tracker Daryl Flood joins the search and quietly confirms that an experimental aircraft was recently stolen from a nearby high-security R and D facility, Vance's wild theory starts to feel dangerously real. Hours later, Caitlin's fitness tracker pings a cell tower in Alabama-and every arrow points east, toward Florida.
As the trail leads them back into familiar territory, Vance and Lauren begin to understand the truth is darker than either of them suspected. Old demons have resurfaced. And this time, a teenage girl is caught in the middle.