Seychelle’s life takes a turn when her tug intercepts a swamped fishing boat in the Gulf Stream. Inside the boat are a murdered woman and a little girl in a white dress. When Seychelle returns to shore with the traumatized Haitian girl, she is faced with the border patrol, the police, and an unraveling love affair. Determined to protect the child, and somehow keep her from being sent back to Haiti, Seychelle becomes obsessed with the forces that nearly killed the girl—and left her speechless with terror. All Seychelle knows for sure is that the girl’s father was an American . . . and that somehow the child slipped through a murderer’s hands.