The way a sheriff's deputy gets revenge for the ten-month kidnapping and continual rape of his niece, and the problem both the sheriff and the chief of police have as a result of their suspicion and tracking creates a plot never before published or produced.

Ray Steagle, high school English teacher late to the gym and unseen, encounters an honor student terrorizing the entire student body with a .357-magnum at the academic awards assembly. Ray gets a .38-caliber revolver from his car and calls nine-one-one. Knowing Jacob Kriter well, he tries to appease the boy. After fourteen minutes, both weapons fire. One misses. The other does not. Ray is charged and goes on trial.

Trained by the Marines as a Military Criminal Investigator, Warrant Officer Harley Dodd retires after twenty years and returns home for the first time since enlistment. Had he maintained contact with the family, he would have known his mother had been placed in a nursing home, his sister Ella Mae, twenty-eight, lay in a coma as the result of being attacked in her home a year ago, and his niece Hayley, age ten, abducted and never found. When he solves the crime, he's recognized as a hero, but no one knows the truth. He did not extradite the repeat sex offender to Colorado. If found, the body would be snagged or floating in Colorado's Muddy Boggy River. That victim proved to be Harley's first and the beginning of a crusade to eradicate the Pedophilia Plague in the state of Wisconsin. "We kill rabid dogs, don't we? Rabid humans deserve the same!"