A little boy has seen a horrific murder but is too traumatized to speak.

Charlie Sparkes peeks out to see his mother and another young woman brutally shot. Hysterical, the brave child bolts into the cold November night for help.

Homicide Detective Kerri Blasco arrives to find one woman dead next to the blood soaked rug where Rachel Sparkes was badly wounded. Her child has been taken to the hospital, but lies in bed mute and traumatized. Kerri’s heart aches for this piteous little boy. Will she be able to help him and find the monster who did this horrible crime? She finds herself more emotionally obsessed with this case than with any other, despite onrushing danger to herself…