Reputed criminal, Theo Jackson, proposes a donation to the city for a new youth center and the mayor sends police officer, Denton Jones to negotiate the terms. Theo and Denton, once friends from the same Cincinnati tenement, took different career paths. Denton’s efforts make him a target for a corrupt city official, but a dishonest bureaucrat is the least of the city’s problems. Theo uncovers evidence that a criminal organization has set up shop in the city to facilitate human trafficking. Repulsed by such a crime, Theo enlists an unlikely coalition of clergy, local and federal law enforcement, and criminals to try to stop it. Readers travel to the uncomfortable gray areas of life where the wrong thing sometimes seems a better choice than the right one; where a little bad turns into almost good; and where dark white and light black are the same color.