In 1930s Pittsburgh, orphaned Lewis Carter and his ragtag gang of friends face new dangers and challenges when their hideout is threatened by floods and people experiencing homelessness start mysteriously disappearing from the streets. As the gang goes all out to investigate, the evidence once again seems to implicate the steel tycoon who had Lewis's father killed.

Missy Turner thinks of herself as the most ordinary woman in the world. She has a lot to be thankful for-a great kid, a loving husband, a job she enjoys and the security of living in the small town where she was born. Then one day everything gets turned upside down-she loses her job, catches her husband making out with the neighbor and is briefly taken hostage by a young man who robs the local cafe. With her world rapidly falling apart, Missy finds...

The lives of four characters, including cemetery thief Cade Curtis, a runaway slave, and an illegally captured ocelot, flow together across time through their connections to the Houston bayou and an angel carved from Georgia marble.