As the snow began to melt, her delicate body was slowly revealed. A beautiful girl, taken far too soon, perfectly preserved in the ice, waves of brown hair cascading down to the frozen ground.

As the snow thaws across the small college town of Plattsburgh, New York, the body of a young woman is found buried in a snowbank. Detective Harlow Durant races to the scene and discovers that the victim has lain there for months: her arresting beauty, bright purple nails and a gold bracelet engraved with the initials AT perfectly preserved in the ice.

Searching missing person reports, Harlow soon identifies the victim as college student Alyssa Trent. Her grieving family describe her as the perfect daughter and a hardworking student with no enemies. But Alyssa’s tutor has a different view: she claims Alyssa was distant and distracted from her studies. But what secrets was she keeping which would lead someone to kill her?

Harlow knows all about keeping secrets. As the daughter of a convicted serial killer she has spent years running from her past. As the only female detective at the Bureau of Criminal Investigation and haunted by her father’s dark crimes, Harlow has dedicated her life to bringing killers like her father to justice. Can she find justice for Alyssa?

But just as Harlow begins to piece together the fragments of evidence, another female student is found in the thawing snow and Harlow knows that she is hunting a twisted serial killer. The victims knew each other but what dark secret connects them? With the town reeling in shock and more snow coming, Harlow knows she needs to stop a killer dead in their tracks before another innocent life is lost.