(Just in case it isn't visible to you, the knife on the cover image is pointing to a dead body lying in the alleyway.) Ruth Talmei is a sixteen-year-old girl whose sister was raped and murdered two years ago. Ruth's father is in jail for tracking down and killing the murderer, and Ruth has had to learn to cope over the past twenty four months. She's managed to keep herself from thinking too hard about the case that had given her sister's killer a name, yet driven their family even further apart by taking her father away, too. What will Ruth do when a boy shows up at her house, claiming to be the son of the man who raped the elder Talmei daughter? But wait, he also says that his father didn't touch the girl. Harris Wagner was framed, and the killer is still out there, maybe even looking for Ruth.