The third in Oliver Stark's gripping Harper/Levene series, for fans of Richard Montanari and Chris Carter. It is the seventh summer. The seventh summer since The Swallow's annual reign of terror began. Every year, as families enjoy the heat of an East Coast vacation, unsuspecting victims vanish.never to be seen alive again. When a girl is abducted from Brooklyn, it falls to the NYPD's top homicide detective, Tom Harper, and psychologist Dr Denise Levene, to find her. Amidst the hysteria of the ensuing media circus, their search becomes desperate. For The Swallow is a creature of habit and one victim is never enough; after the disappearance of the first there are always fourteen days of terror.

With a matter of days remaining, Harper and Levene must race to prevent the killer completing his annual ritual and save this year's victims, and next.