After finding three children alone in the woods, Joe Espinosa and the men of the Sisterhood launch an investigation.

Enduring appalling treatment in a California agricultural community under the orders of an unscrupulous cult leader, Lacey receives support from women friends who help her search for the mother who abandoned her.

In Wisconsin, as her adoptive parents open their lake cabins for summer visitors, twelve-year-old Annalise, abandoned as an infant and able to communicate with the lake, discovers a growing toxic algae bloom and teams up with her friends to save the beloved body of water.