Eastbury, Mass. Quiet, peaceful, prosperous. Surely the ideal place to raise a family? For the Montgomery family, the death of their baby daughter is a mystery that medicine should be able to answer, but can't. For the Corliss family, the disappearance of their teenage son will bring many eyes to Eastbury, and spark quite a different type of mystery. What has happened to these children? Eastbury...
Sally and Bernie Montgomery have found some disturbing information about the death of their baby daughter - but is it really an answer, or just another question? Malone, meanwhile, continues to search for Lucy Corliss' missing son Randy, but his investigation is soon to surprise him. Meanwhile, who really runs the CHiLDhood network, and who or what is GT-21...?