When he was twelve years old, Adam Ryan went playing in the woods with his two best friends. He never saw them again.
Their bodies were never found, and Adam himself was discovered with his back pressed against an oak tree, his shoes filled with blood. He had no memory of what had happened.
Twenty years on, Rob Ryan - the child who came back - is a detective in the Dublin police force. He's changed his name. No one knows about his past.
But when a little girl's body is found at the site of the old tragedy, Rob is drawn back into his own haunted memories.
Knowing that he would be thrown off the case if his past were revealed, Rob takes a fateful decision to keep quiet, as he begins a desperate quest to solve the twenty-year-old mystery of the woods.
