In 1975, 13 year old Ruby Mae Vickers disappears in Alvin, Alabama. New detective, Leah Teal, is assigned to the case. After 3 months, Ruby Mae turns up dead beside a swamp. Twelve years later, another little girl goes missing. Then another. Then Leah's own daughter joins the list of missing girls. Told from the point of view of Leah's 11 year old son Abe, this is a tense and moving story of one woman's search for the truth and justice as she struggles against a past that won't let her go.