The investigative business is booming for Juliet Applebaum and her partner Al, but their new client, incarcerated in Dartmore State Prison, is going to be a real challenge. Sandra Lorgeree has enlisted Juliet to locate the son she surrendered to foster care-as well as the foster parents who seem to have disappeared with him. But Juliet's new case takes a deadly detour when the desperate young mother is knifed to death- allegedly by another inmate.
Prison officials dismiss the murder as just one more fatality in lockdown. Juliet has her doubts. Now Juliet is determined to make Sandra's last wish come true. Even if it means tracking little Noah-and the killer-through the dark maze of a widespread conspiracy. And even if it winds up pitting her against some very wealthy, powerful,and dangerous enemies...
