Family Ties is a suspenseful crime drama set in Calvert County Maryland. A beautiful area on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay. The story follows Aaron Darren and Katie three very close siblings. Their family is like any other family in town or in America for that matter. Their parents own a local restaurant where they all work at. To say the least they are close and even ride to school together every day. But even in the peaceful Bay Shore town there is an evil lurking. Katie, only 15, is raped. Not by some unknown attacker but by a group of her brothers friends. People she had once called friends herself. Her attackers even have a tape of it. Now as she struggles to come to terms with what has happened to her, she wonders how to tell her family or if she even should.