As an investigative journalist, Jake Carlson has made a career of digging up the truth. After winning a Pulitzer at the precocious age of 33, he accepts a lucrative job as a correspondent with a popular television news show. But his life and career are derailed when he loses his wife to cancer, leaving him to raise his adopted son Sam alone. Afraid of being left parentless, Sam wants to find his biological mother, and Jake tries to track her down. Using his investigative skills, he soon uncovers a horrifying ring of deceit and black market child trafficking that he could never have imagined. Having worked as a reporter in Afghanistan during the war, Jake is unafraid of ruffling the feathers of criminals if he can find the truth for his son - and a big story for his career. Especially when it appears the story of his stolen child involves a complicated inheritance from an old, highly respected and politically important New England family. But when the identity of Sam's true blood line is revealed, Jake knows that it's no longer only his life that is at risk, but his son's as well.