Convicted serial killer Jack Carling is just coming to terms with prison life, when his world is turned upside down. His only child has been kidnapped, by someone with a grudge against him. Someone wants revenge for the pain and suffering he has caused them. They want Carling to know what it is like. They want him to suffer, as they have suffered. Now Detective Sergeant Anson Carver must revisit a case he thought had been consigned to history. He must search through the families of Jack Carling's victims to find the kidnapper before it is too late. For the first time in his life, he is in a race against the clock to save a young man's life.