Someone is raping elderly women in the village of Dewledge Connecticut. The townsfolk are in fear. Things like this just don't happen in Dewledge. The residents are divided. Some want to start a police department of their own. The fiscal conservatives, worried about higher taxes want to keep relying on the State Police for protection. Liz Stone must find a way to bring the two groups together. With the help of her handsome single lawyer and her domineering grandmother, they fight to get the town council to approve plans for a new public safety department. Finding a serial rapist and fighting city hall is a daunting task but impossible is nothing for Liz. New Edition, edited and revised

Introducing Liz Stone. She's the wife of a high powered lawyer, the mother of a feisty five year old Rosie, and a cop. A Las Vegas Detective working in the Crimes Against Children, division kind of cop. Liz is on the hunt for Surfer-Dude-Sam, a serial rapist and killer who lures teen girls over the internet by pretending to be a 16 year old boy. Liz and her partner, John, Stewart, are working against time to find 14-year-old Amanda Stephens before it's too late.

After the death of her husband, and the scandal surrounding it, Liz Stone quit her job as a detective with the Clark County Sheriff's Department. The rest of her life shatters when she gets a call from a Connecticut lawyer telling her that her mother has passed away. The problem is that she thought her mother died thirty years earlier when Liz was five. He went on to tell her that she was the sole heir to her mother's estate and asks her to go to Connecticut to take care of the details of her mother's estate. Liz decided to go to Connecticut, with her five year old daughter Rosie, not just to settle her mother's estate, but also to find answers to why she was lied to all her life. She must meet the grandmother that was behind the decision to take her away from her mother. On Liz's second day in Connecticut the body of a small child is discovered on her land. Liz is caught up in the need to investigate the crime and the fact that she's no longer a cop. When two more little girls are abducted she is determined to find out who it taking them.