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During a mountain hike, Detective Ellie Reeves discovers a dead woman surrounded by flowers and a nursery-rhyme note. A photograph of her abducted colleague Shondra reveals the killer's next threat, sending Ellie racing against a schedule of daily murders.

A snowstorm complicates Detective Ellie Reeves's investigation of a woman found buried in ice near Crooked Creek. Identifying her as someone missing for eleven years raises new questions, and another disappearance suggests the killer is preparing to strike again.

As wildfires spread near Crooked Creek, Detective Ellie Reeves finds women's bodies surrounded by circles of stones. A teenager's necklace and hidden diary offer clues, but two deaths within a day reveal a serial killer amid the fires.

Kate McKendrick returns to her former high school as principal, hoping to help the town heal after a deadly attack. New threats force her and Riggs Benford to uncover the secrets of that day while danger complicates their growing attraction.

Rescuing a teenager at an abandoned orphanage leads Detective Ellie Reeves to human remains left for thirty years. Missing records and vanished former residents suggest a cover-up, while the murder of a former employee threatens to silence the truth permanently.

When Ava disappears on her way to the school bus, Detective Ellie Reeves searches Crooked Creek for clues. A message about other missing girls reveals a disappearance on the same date a year earlier, suggesting a pattern behind the abduction.

Agent Macy Stark wants to sell her childhood home, but a body hidden in its wall revives old nightmares. Sheriff Stone Lawson helps investigate her mother's disappearance and family secrets while someone threatens to kill to keep the past concealed.

Detective Ellie Reeves searches for her friend Mia when the bride vanishes from her wedding venue. Finding a bridesmaid shot dead in the river and Mia's frightened daughter nearby turns the celebration into a race to stop a killer.

A five-year-old girl disappears near Widow Lake, sending Detective Ellie Reeves into an urgent search. The discovery of remains from an older disappearance, involving a mother and an unreported missing baby, suggests a disturbing connection between the cases.

Detective Ellie Reeves finds twin girls dead on a frozen lake, yet nobody has reported them missing. Their injured mother disappears from hospital, and another child vanishes, forcing Ellie to unravel the family’s secrets before a winter storm closes in.

A photograph of missing teenager Kelsey Tiller suggests a murder staged like a crime from ten years earlier. When another girl disappears, Detective Ellie Reeves must reconsider an apparently obvious suspect and investigate secrets within her own team.

Teenage remains buried with a red shoe revive suspicion surrounding an escaped gravedigger. When another girl is found in a similar grave, Detective Ellie Reeves investigates his daughters and discovers troubling connections involving a trusted colleague.

Detective Ellie Reeves questions a teenage mother’s apparent suicide at Midnight Ridge and searches for her missing baby. Earlier deaths reveal a pattern involving young mothers, while another disappearance warns that the predator may be preparing to strike again.