Constable Evan Evans has found the perfect home for his wife-to-be - a charming old shepherd's cottage up in the mountain. He wastes no time digging over the garden to make space for his fiancee Bronwen's rose bushes.But under the flagstones he finds a human skeleton. And it looks like it belongs to a child.Could this have anything to do with the little girl who went missing from Llanrwst twenty-five years ago?Before Evans can start investigating, five-year-old Ashley Sholokhov vanishes from a caravan park by the sea.Evans not only has a murder to solve, but a missing child to find. And the clock is ticking . . .