Eighteen-year-old Evelyn Jones lands a job in small-town Alaska, working for a man in his remote mountain home. But her bright hopes for the future are shattered when Donald White disappears, leaving her to face charges of theft, embezzlement, and a brutal double murder. Her protestations of innocence count for nothing. Convicted, she faces life in prison until fate sends her on the run. Evie sescape leaves her scarred and in hiding, isolated from her family, working under an alias at a wilderness camp. Bent on justice, intent on recovering her life, she searches for the killer who slaughters without remorse. At last, the day comes. Donald White has returned. Evieemerges from hiding; the fugitive becomes the hunter. But in her mind, she hears the whisper of other forces at work. Now Evie must untangle the threads of evidence before she is once again found with blood on her hands: the blood of her own family.