"Bockoven subtly creates believable characters as she weaves a quietly involving tale." - Publishers Weekly. "I'm going to miss you. Every minute of every hour... " With those words, Julia's husband stepped into his taxi and was gone. Evan McDonald was Julia's lifeline, and the doting father of her two beautiful children. From the moment she'd spotted him in high school, so many years earlier, she'd known they were meant to be together. But Evan's trip to Columbia becomes deadly when he's kidnapped. Suddenly, Julia is thrown into a tailspin of horror and waiting. For five tortured years Julia does whatever it takes to bring Evan home. Despite her grief and rage at losing the man she loves, she vows to keep struggling - until she receives a shattering call.