What DCI Piper dredges up when investigating the cold case of Terrence Whittaker’s disappearance is unexpected and unwelcome - especially when it links to a current missing persons case. Charlie Bell’s only goal in life is ending the tyranny of the Mansel-Jones crime family. While Ariadne Teddington recovers after a car crash, her missing brother's case is reopened, and a past she has always struggled to deal with comes back to haunt her. Finding the new lodger isn’t who she was expecting makes life a rollercoaster she can’t get off. What will it take to get a criminal locked down for once and for all? Can the present overcome the past? And can any of them afford the price?