Wrong Place, Wrong Time

Tsara Adelman is a happily married mother of two (three if you count the dog), enjoying her unruffled existence in the Boston suburbs. One day she receives an invitation to a lavish housewarming party at the New Hampshire estate of her uncle, Castle Thornlocke, from whom she has been estranged for twenty-five years due to a family quarrel. With some hesitation she accepts but leaves her husband and young children behind for the weekend.

The night of the party Tsara is abducted by two men who take her to a primitive cabin in the woods. There the larger of the two, Mike, tells her that Castle has kidnapped several of the local children and is holding them captive until their parents pay him the balance of an illegal loan he extended to them. Although Mike himself was not party to the loan, his son was abducted along with the other kids. Mike tells Tsara that he has exhausted all his other options for retrieving the boy and his friends, so he has decided on a prisoner exchange and will trade her for the children the next day. Tsara is baffled, wondering if Mike is delusional or her uncle is a criminal.

In the morning Mike’s associate, Jim, delivers a ransom note to Castle, who shoots at him with a rifle, narrowly missing. Tsara’s brother Court, also a guest at the house, discovers her absence and calls the FBI. Soon Mike and his captive are on the run from federal agents as well as the local police—two brothers, Jordan and Arnold Stone, who have a penchant for violence and a long-standing feud with Mike. Since they are the ones who kidnapped the children and secreted them in an outbuilding on Castle’s land, they have every reason to want to be sure Mike and Tsara meet with a very bad accident as they flee through the beautiful but deadly mountains of New Hampshire’s North Country.