Mina Rose Cabot, age thirteen, is a good girl from a good family. Walking home from soccer practice in Devon, Pennsylvania, she disappears. Eight months later her body is found in Battery Park, New York, speared through the chest by a three-inch piece of wood. Lt. Eve Dallas knows that whoever abducted Mina is responsible for her death. But who took her - and just where has Mina been for eight long months...?