Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.

Four months ago Sara Zapata's best friend, Linda, disappeared from the streets of Juarez, and ever since Sara has been using her job as a reporter to draw attention to the girls who have been kidnapped by the criminals who control the city, but now she and her family are being threatened--meanwhile her younger brother, Emiliano, is being lured into the narcotics business by the promise of big money, and soon the only way for both of them to escape...

Theodore Boone's friend, Hardie Quinn, is about to have his family home bulldozed to make way for a bypass. Hardie is not the only one affected, and there's very little anyone can do to stop the destruction ... until Theo joins the campaign to stop the road, and stumbles on a terrible secret about the developers.