Lust, Incest, Betrayal, Murder ending in a suicide that triggers a suspense filled series of mysteries filled with unexpected and surprising twists full of imminent danger. Fighting himself, the official bureaucracies, unseen foes, his family, and even his community, Bret Martin struggles to solve these mysteries that threaten his ward Dana, his sanity, and ultimately his life. As each mystery is solved a new, more deadly, mystery is revealed finally climaxing in an unexpected and lethal conclusion that leaves behind a trail littered with dead bodies and the sad spectacle of abused and frightened children. Painful family secrets fester when conveniently rationalized away. Their sickening presence remain in the background persisting almost out of sight and out of mind. Ceaselessly oozing a malevolent wickedness that spreads with terrible effect, they contaminate almost everyone and everything they touch inflicting wrenching pain on the guilty and innocent alike. When the pain becomes unbearable it takes very little to expose the loathsome truth. Bret's niece Christine's actions were more than enough to expose the truth and set in motion a set of deadly events causing more than one death, the potential disintegration of her family, and the exposure of official corruption on a massive scale.