This is a story about the Halstead family. Jay Halstead and Hailey Upton are married and live with their fourteen year old daughter Maddie in Chicago. Jay and Hailey are members of the intelligence squad at district 21. Follow their story as they work as cops and at the same time try to raise a kid.

Voight and the Intelligence Unit are working to bust a major drug ring. Nothing new, they've seen this all before. Only this time they discover that 14 year old Cordelia is stuck in a life she didn't choose. Abused and neglected by her drug addicted parents, the ways she's learned to cope have lead her to a dark place, but what happens when she meets Detective Hailey Upton? Will she be able to save her? -TRIGGER WARNING- Self Harm, Depression, Anorexia, Abuse, Anxiety, Drugs..

Everyone knows Hailey Upton's old home life wasn't the best. So it is no surprise that she doesn't go home a lot. But since she doesn't go home a lot it means that she missed a lot of things, one of those things is a little sister?! She is 5 1/2 years old, her full name is Skyler Rae Upton. Her home life is just like Hailey's was so it's no surprise that she's extremely shy. What happens when the little girl shows up at the district looking for Hailey? How will everyones life change? Will this little girl be the thing that pushes Jay and Hailey together? How will Jay react to Skylar being so close to Adam?

Ellie at just 17 gets an amazing job as Taylor Swifts backup dancer for The Eras Tour, forcing her to leave behind her family back in Australia. It doesn't take long for the young teen to realise that tour life isn't exactly what she had thought and that having no parents around is quite a challenge also. She has her co-workers though right?