Architect of Fate - Sharon Swope

When a college student, a housewife, an elderly wheelchair-bound women and a small boy go missing in Virginia, Sam Osborne is called into the case. He works with young police detective Mark Brady try to find out how the disappearances are connected. Are they looking for a serial killer? Are the victims still alive? Can they find the connection before time runs out? As they work together, Sam and Mark form a friendship that helps them both get through difficult discoveries about their own lives. Sam faces another painful reminder of when his own son disappeared. Mark learns to let go of his professional ambitions enough to let the fiery redhead connected to the case into his heart. Neither could predict, however, how this story finally ends.