Seventeen year old Sydney is staying with her dad for the summer, and relations between them are a bit strained due to her parents' divorce five years prior. Tim is trying to overcome the gap this has placed in their relationship but it's not easy to be the overprotective dad of a daughter running with a questionable crowd while trying to maintain the closeness they once had. One morning, on Syd's way to work, an argument transpires over a pair of her sunglasses, and whether they were paid for or stolen. That night Syd doesn't come home. Worried, Tim finds that she hasn't gone to her mother Suzanne's house either. Tim heads to the hotel Syd works at and asks after her, but nobody has heard of her. Realizing the gravity of the situation, Tim calls the police and launches a website to find Syd. Every turn Tim takes seems to send him six steps backwards and that much farther away from finding his daughter. It doesn't help that after a false lead, Tim returns to find his house ransacked and upon finding cocaine in the house, the police now suspect that he isn't on the up and up completely.

I loved this book and devoured the 400 pages quickly. There was no predictability in the pages at all for me, and indeed every turn brought something new to an already heavy plot without muddying up the original premise, adding more anticipation to the outcome at the end. The final chapters felt like something out of a Mark Wahlberg movie, and I was on the edge of my seat.