Converting the old schoolhouse to lofts and a studio for fashion diva Alejandra Reyes should be a snap for architect Seraphy Pelligrini. The building was empty, the illegal workers Grassey had hidden there gone. But when she discovers Grassey's body at the foot of a hidden dumbwaiter shaft, a boy named Paco comes looking for his father and uncle, and her new friend Charlie disappears, Seraphy finds herself fighting to untangle a web of deceit stretching all the way to the Mexican border. Hunting for men she's never seen, in a neighborhood she doesn't know, in a language she doesn't speak. What could go wrong?