Kathleen Bishop, a young talented teacher, has spent the last five years teaching World History at one of Chicago's tough inner schools. Her compassion for the kids keeps her there instead of returning home to Ft. Lauderdale and teaching at a dream job set up by her father. A good school year was well on its way until Kathleen decided to make a home visit to one of her absent students, Eddie. Once she entered the Benedict Housing Complex were he lives, she knew she had made a mistake. Instead of convincing Eddie to return to school, she finds him high and in trouble with two grim men. Realizing the situation was turning ugly, she runs out of the apartment complex. A few hours later, Chicago's finest detectives Butch McNeil and Paula Williams are soon called in to the Benedict Housing Complex and witness the horrors left behind. Soon they realize they have a witness and quickly hook up with Kathleen to protect her. FBI Agent Bethany Kay-Loviett has been working on a case to bring down one of Chicago's notorious crime and drug familes, The Fernandez Family, owner of Chicago Steel. After a failed undercover attempt, the only thing Kay-Loviett has left to build her case is a witness to the crimes at the Bendict Housing Complex. Kathleen soon finds herself swept away to Barbados under the FBI witness protection program. Once in Barbados she makes choices that quickly sends her life spiraling out of control once again.