Caleb Franklin and his big brother, Bobby Gene, spend an extraordinary summer with their new, older neighbor, Styx Malone, a foster boy from the city.

When the body of disgraced reality TV star Desiree Pierce is found on a playground in the Bronx the morning after her 25th birthday party, the police and the media are quick to declare her death an overdose...But Desiree's half-sister Lena Scott knows that can't be the case...Despite the bitter truth that the two haven't spoken in two years. Lena becomes determined to find justice for her sister, even if it means untangling her family's darkest secrets....