Paternal Instincts

Quaid is about to start parental leave. He and Aslan are expecting their baby any day, with a surrogate carrying the child, and this is his last day at work. Then a case lands on his desk: a boy has vanished.

The clues are strange. Ransom notes arrive with an eerie tone, and the boy's family keeps secrets of its own. Each answer raises another question, and the case turns into something Quaid has never worked before. Someone is lying, and someone knows more than they admit.

Friends and colleagues back Quaid and Aslan as they push to solve it before it is too late. Both men are about to become fathers, and the missing child's story presses on what that role means to them.

Then the surrogate goes into labor. Quaid finds it hard to let the investigation go and walk away. A child is missing and a life is in danger, and the baby's arrival is close. The question is whether the boy can be found before the birth.