When paralegal Joy Ryan hears screaming in the hills while on a hiking trail, she calls 911. Sergeant Adam Hawkins, haunted and grieving father, answers the call. He is a stranger to her, with painful eyes and sculpted arm muscles. His son, Danny, has been missing for ten years. Her son was murdered. His body was recovered in 1985. Who killed her son? Where is Danny Hawkins? When six-year old Cody McClain goes missing in Santa Clarita, the hunt is on to find the boy before it is too late. Legend says that Crying Hill is a lonely canyon haunted by restless Indian spirits. But what is really on Crying Hill? Joy and Adam are drawn together into a vortex of terror and imminent death as they are unwittingly lured into the lair of a serial killer. The countdown to madness begins. The conclusion is shattering.