When a battered young woman arrives secretly at her free clinic, only to die minutes later, clinic director Alex Harrington suddenly finds herself in the terrifying world of human trafficking, and everything she thought about her life turns out to be untrue. Her determination to find the people responsible for the woman's death sends her on a journey that will take her from swanky Southern country clubs to seamy Mexican cartel compounds, confronting double-dealing lawyers and vicious gang members, and she learns that sometimes it is the most innocent and ordinary places that hide the most terrible secrets.