Five months after what seems like a typical kidnapping case goes cold, twelve year old Elle Redwood appears on her family's front porch with a red ribbon tied around her neck and a mind full of nightmares. This story follows the life of her older sister Lacey and the aging detective that had worked the original case as they struggle to uncover the truth behind what happened in those few short months that made an innocent girl transform into the failed results of an attempt to program a living, bloodthirsty machine.