those ties that bind

Why are teenage mothers dying in childbirth in the Garland Regional E.R. instead of delivering healthy babies for adoption at The Obstetrical Center? What is wrong? On her physician’s advice, Garland’s CEO Evelyn Langford reluctantly takes a long scheduled vacation for her fiftieth birthday leaving her team to conduct an investigation into the deaths. Evelyn’s efforts to continue investigating the problem are hampered by her complicated relationships with her secretive, older brother, Frank, her subordinates, and, surprisingly, FBI Special Agent Rance Thompson, a new acquaintance, who comes to the small town to investigate possible links between the Obstetrical Center and a string of teenage girl disappearances. Will Frank’s increasingly erratic behavior and her growing attraction to the younger FBI agent further complicate discovering the truth about the dying girls?