At fourteen, Molly Small is over the hill. Dumped
by a child prostitution ring, she refuses to lie
down and play victim. Instead, she makes her way to
a remote West Virginia mountain county that
headquarters a ring of kiddie-porn operators.
Molly's unexpected appearance turns out to be the first in a series of unusual events facing God-fearing state trooper Roscoe Bragg and young postal inspector Rens Vandermeer. The day after her arrival, a private plane crashes into Dumb John's Mountain, leaving the pilot dead and, huddled in the snowy wreckage, a terrified illegally adopted 6-year-old boy. Then, a lost little girl's body is found inside a leaf bag and witnesses start to disappear.
Her feisty spirit and salty tongue intact, Molly summons all her inner resources--fabrication, common sense and sheer will--in a brave, if misguided, effort to confront the dangerously reckless killers. But before long, Molly too goes missing.
As Bragg and Vandermeer come closer to uncovering an operation supplying film and flesh to a nationwide pedophilia club, matters of Molly's life and death fall into the hands of an unlikely protector--a lumbering, ingenuous 18-year-old the locals call "Stupe."
Molly's unexpected appearance turns out to be the first in a series of unusual events facing God-fearing state trooper Roscoe Bragg and young postal inspector Rens Vandermeer. The day after her arrival, a private plane crashes into Dumb John's Mountain, leaving the pilot dead and, huddled in the snowy wreckage, a terrified illegally adopted 6-year-old boy. Then, a lost little girl's body is found inside a leaf bag and witnesses start to disappear.
Her feisty spirit and salty tongue intact, Molly summons all her inner resources--fabrication, common sense and sheer will--in a brave, if misguided, effort to confront the dangerously reckless killers. But before long, Molly too goes missing.
As Bragg and Vandermeer come closer to uncovering an operation supplying film and flesh to a nationwide pedophilia club, matters of Molly's life and death fall into the hands of an unlikely protector--a lumbering, ingenuous 18-year-old the locals call "Stupe."
