Four terrified adolescent girls are trapped in a prison of lies by their captor. A murder at the St. Paul Crashed Ice competition forces the girls to face a new set of threats. Their reluctance to share any information poses a challenge for Saint Paul investigators Pete Culnane and Martin Tierney. Mining for details about the victim, the search for the murderer takes Pete and Martin from Gainesville, Florida, to Rochester, Minnesota, and northward to Virginia, Minnesota. Pete and Martin are determined to help the girls escape their bondage.