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When Captain Sharon Raydor agrees to take in fifteen-year-old Russell Thomas Beck, she expects resistance, anger, and a battle of wills.
What she does not expect is his condition.
He will not go anywhere without his sister.
Sixteen-year-old Lucille Marie Beck enters Sharon's life quietly-observant, composed, and far too used to surviving on her own. Where Rusty is loud and defiant, Lucy is calm and watchful. Where he still longs for their mother, she refuses to speak of her at all.
Suddenly, Sharon finds herself responsible not for one difficult teenager, but for two deeply scarred siblings who have learned to survive the world in very different ways.
While the Major Crimes division continues to navigate high-profile cases, political pressure, and dangerous investigations, Sharon faces a challenge no courtroom or interrogation room ever prepared her for:
becoming the steady ground beneath two children who have never truly had one.
Some cases are solved at the conference table.
Others unfold quietly at home.
And some things - the most important things -
are what we choose to carry.