When an accused murderer disappears from a locked cell on her watch, Corporal "Goose" Maculloch of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police tracks the vanished girl through the wilderness of Vancouver Island. Gavin Stokes' aunt has disappeared. A young girl who's been accused of murder vanishes from a locked cell. A mother, half mad with grief for her lost son, sets off to find him. There is a place where all their journeys meet... and all signs point to the return of magic....