When a teenage quarrel in the small town of Heartsdale explodes into a deadly shoot-out Sara Linton
- paediatrician & medical examiner
- finds herself entangled in a horrific tragedy. & what seems at first to be a terrible but individual catastrophe proves to have wider implications when the autopsy reveals evidence of long-term abuse & ritualistic self-mutilation. Sara & police chief Jeffrey Tolliver start to investigate but the children surrounding the victim close ranks. The families turn their backs. Then a young girl is abducted & it becomes clear that the first death is linked to an even more brutal crime. & unless Sara & Jeffrey can uncover the deadly secrets the children hide it's going to happen again...