Description

It s Halloween in Mobile, Alabama. Jennifer Riley, CPS supervisor and her team, face a nightmare line-up of child abuse cases. A young boy, imprisoned by his mother in the family basement, fights for his life. Across the city, a baby girl, whose parents are drug-addicts, is on life support from a traumatic brain injury. Despite the outward clues and natural assumptions that could lead the team to the guilty parties, they soon discover that the truth is never that simple. They must navigate the who and the why of these cases with Jennifer s guidance. But when a ghost from her past reappears, Jennifer is shaken to her very core. A former foster child, who had survived the system, is murdered. Will her own grief and self-doubt derail the team? Romance is the last thing she wants, but maybe, it is just what she needs.