Frank Bennett, the tacitum police chief of the remote village of Trout Run, New York, returns in the second installment of S.W. Hubbard's compelling mystery series. The sudden death of Mary Pat Sheehan creates havoc in the small Adirondack mountain town of Trout Run. People are stunned to learn that Mary Pat died from childbirth complications, since no one knew she was pregnant. Police Chief Frank Bennett soon discovers Mary Pat was involved with a black market adoption organization...but where is her baby?