A Clockwork Rose
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When a teenage boy is pushed over the edge by his drug-addled parents, he is finds himself doing the unspeakable. Forced to go on the run to an outside world that is unfamiliar, he stumbles across a kind old man with a dark secret.
Meanwhile, a local detective returns to work after a four month hiatus. Fighting his own personal demons he reports to a dilapidated house where a woman has been brutally murdered. It's clear she was married, but there is no sign of the husband.
In this cat and mouse tale of love and life, will Detective Garrett catch the perpetrator of this heinous act before the murderer can strike again?
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