When Homicide Detective Julie Bradley is summoned to Caradan Elementary School to investigate multiple shootings she is freaked. Her mother, Mimi Bradley, is a teacher at the school. When Julie arrives on the campus her worst fear is realized. The school Counselor is dead, her Mom critically wounded and the teacher's Second Graders have been shot, some fatally. At first glance, the case appears to be open and shut: a spree killing by a lunatic with a gun, but when Mimi dies and the killer begins eliminating those close to her, Julie concludes the school killings were not a random act at all...

High School sweethearts Frankie Corey and Laura Ames finally established their careers, and a future together appeared to be within reach. Instead of a wedding, Laura found herself attending a funeral. When the young doctor loses Frankie, she believes any chance for love and happiness died with her soldier. When Charlie Corey, Frankie's youngest brother, enlists in the Army, his Bomb Ordnance Team is attacked in an Iraqi ambush. Members of the team are sent to SAMMC to recuperate and Laura becomes involved in Charlie's rehabilitation. While visiting at the hospital, Laura meets and falls in...