After capturing a bank robber, nineteen-year-old cab driver Ed Kennedy begins receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses where people need help, and he begins getting over his lifelong feeling of worthlessness.

Twenty years earlier, a 14-year-old girl from high society in Massachusetts vanished, leaving her clothes on a beach. At the time no one thought of linking the apparent suicide to the disappearance of a gardener at her school. Now PI Carlotta Carlyle hopes to make a connection. By the author of Hardware.