David Harwood is glad to be spending some quality time with his wife and their son but what begins as a pleasant family outing turns into a nightmare after an inexplicable disappearance. A frantic search only leads to an even more shocking and harrowing turn of events. Until this terrifying moment, David was just a smalltown reporter who had a lead on a potential scandal involving a controversial development project. It's a hot-button issue that would surely have sold papers and helped reverse the paper's fortunes, but strangely, David's editors kept shooting the story down.