Rachel Collins is about to celebrate her sweet sixteenth birthday. She has everything a girl could want, but when a shock murder at her party unravels a dark web of lies in her family, Rachel questions everything she's ever known.

Living among fusty academics, an unusual young man gets between a high school history teacher and his wife.

Angel is released from prison and is reunited with his friend Rich who helps him smuggle weapons in a gun-running ring. But Detroit police and the FBI have declared war on arms smuggling.