After a lucrative television writing career comes to an abrupt end, a former high school teacher returns to New Jersey to rethink his life, reconnect with his teenage daughter and to give back to the housing project that reared him.

"John Bekker is called back to action when his close friend Sheriff Jane Morgan seeks his help with a perplexing mystery. Norman Felton, a resident of Midnight Island, drove his car to the mainland county high school and, in an out-of-control rage, beat an exchange student nearly to death with a baseball bat before being shot by sheriff's deputies. Felton's fourteen-year-old daughter Amanda is missing, and with each passing day the odds of finding...