Why are children missing from the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families? What does this have to do with the murder of a fourteen-year-old girl in Meredith, Massachusetts? Niagara Fontaine, former foster child and Department of Children and Families attorney, wants to find out. Suspended from her job, Niagara must rely on her ex-husband, Trooper Alvarez, and an intriguing shooting instructor, Troy Higgins, whose own children are missing. She will find the answers. If she survives the next few days.