Foster carer and memoirist Casey Watson takes in a particularly troubled boy who proceeds to bully Watson's other children, with Watson finding no files on the boy to contextualise him in a dark past, but with the boy's former neighbours filling her in on circumstances she would never have imagined Just when Casey thinks her foster care duties are done, she’s asked to look after Sam, a troubled nine-year-old with a violent streak who drove his previous guardians to release him of their care. It soon unfolds, however, that this is no simple case.
