As Darkness Falls is set in the isolation of a small town on the edge of the New South Wales outback. Haunted by her failures' country police officer Detective Isabella O'Connell is recalled to duty by Detective Alec Goddard to investigate the abduction of yet another child from her old home town. With the killer playing a game of cat and mouse and targeting Bella' they have only days in which to find the girl alive' but they have very few clues' a whole town of suspects' and a vast wilderness to search. For Bella' this case is already personal; for Alec his best intentions to keep it purely professional soon dissolve. He starts to think of the missing child as if she were his own' and his anguish over Bellas safety moves beyond the just his concern for a colleague. Their mutual attraction leaves them both vulnerable to their private nightmares - nightmares that the killer ruthlessly exploits.