When an injured man bursts into the Thredbo lodge that Eva Bell manages, her first thought is to protect her daughter, Poppy. But the bloodied figure turns out to be Jack Walker, the man she'd had a brief fling with four years earlier - Poppy's father. His arrival turns Eva's world upside down, as she tries desperately to shield Poppy from the dangerous consequences of her father's return. Meanwhile, Detective Pierce Ryder of the Sydney Homicide Squad is on the hunt for serial killer Gavin Hutton. After months of dead ends, he's finally got some solid leads that trace Hutton back to the Crackenback Range in the Snowy Mountains. Though they don't know it yet, Jack Walker and Ryder are tangled in the same treacherous web - and they'll both do anything in their power to protect the ones they love...