Deserted and left alone inside of a garbage filled dumpster by his mom on the streets of Massachusetts as an infant some 17 years ago before having been found in the cold by the people who would then become his parents... Youngster TJ Mulligan grew up to be a smart sweet sensitive sort of mature and honest boy who loves video games Plus sports preferably basketball with his police officer dad Thomas. And Scarlet his father's wife for the Mulligan family everything seems perfect which they are except that their youngest son is silently Disturbed by a awful Truth one he then reveals pertaining to his second grade English teacher Miss Fenway her expulsion and immediate departure will lead to the permanent stay of an unexpected person in JT's life someone he neither knows or is even familiar with because she's simply his new sub teacher and nothing more... But when this woman develops a mysterious attachment to their son and why after some 13 years later shows up in Denver Colorado turning the lives of Thomas and his wife scar upside down but also leave innocent TJ trapped in a terrible fact about her comes to light destroying his entire world as he knows it.