He slammed against the side of her pickup time and again.

She was going over. She saw a flash of swirling water below. She screamed as she crashed through the inadequate railing and bounced down the mountainside plunging into the frigid Nenana River. Her battered and submerged pickup, empty and with both doors open, was spotted by a passing motorist.

As hours turned into days and no trace was found of her body, Rose Lynn Kelly, young, attractive widow of Stryker Brigade Sgt. Bill Kelly, was mourned as dead by friends and family in Fairbanks.

But did actually a more sinister fate await her as a prisoner at the hands of her attacker, the unscrupulous Luther Demetri?