When an earthquake disrupts a float trip,Patrick's daughter finds men burying a body and she is kidnapped by human traffickers, Patrick MacKenna faces the challenge of his lifeWhen Erin MacKenna's high school canoe trip is disrupted by an earthquake separating her group from the main party, she stumbles on two men burying a murder victim. She and a younger teen are kidnapped and held prisoner by known sexual predators, drug dealers and human traffickers. Patrick must drop everything and neglect his earthquake-stricken clients to rescue her.In this drama of psychological suspense, widowed architect Patrick MacKenna, while dealing with his own lingering trauma over the death of his beloved wife, fears Erin will bond with her captors in a self-imposed prison. Erin must choose between cooperation with the murderers, which she feels is her only chance for survival, and attempting to alert law enforcement, which could result in a showdown, her death and that of the younger camper kidnapped with her, whom she has sworn to protect. But because of her secret and her mistrust of Patrick and the authorities, she must decide this for herself and willfully seeks her own risky road to self-preservation. Only when father and daughter have reconciled can they put their heads together to catch these criminals and restore order both to their own lives and to their tremor-ravaged city.