the mesmerizing tale of a woman who must risk everything to hunt down the dangerous man who shaped her past and threatens to steal her future her fatherhelena pelletier has a loving husband two beautiful daughters and a business that fills her days but she also has a secret she is the product of an abduction her mother was kidnapped as a teenager by her father and kept in a remote cabin in the marshlands of michigans upper peninsula helena born two years after the abduction loved her home in nature and despite her fathers sometimes brutal behavior she loved him toountil she learned precisely how savage he could bemore than twenty years later she has buried her past so soundly that even her husband doesnt know the truth but now her father has killed two guards escaped from prison and disappeared into the marsh the police begin a manhunt but helena knows they dont stand a chance knows that only one person has the skills to find the survivalist the world calls the marsh kingbecause only one person was ever trained by him his daughter