When Sam's parents were killed—his mother in a hit-and-run, his father during a mysterious meeting with a known criminal—he was adopted by his father's former LAPD partner and friend, Doug, his wife Maggie and their daughter Iris.

It took a while for things to settle down. For Iris and Sam life seemed promising, except for their continuing troubles at school-hell.

But when the past returned to haunt Sam and his adoptive family, everything he thought he knew about his parents and their deaths was worse than just a lie.