The Constitutional and traditional legal rights once known to be guaranteed for everyone no longer existed in the southern states and was gradually spreading nationwide. Because of the severe change, Against the recommendation of an archaic political rule, Pentium Soloman (known as Pen to most) appoints Justice Tobiah Black as the Director of the newly created Home Defense Southern Region. Justice's first arduous assignments was to find the Roan twin toddlers kidnaped from St. Sullivan intensive care unit and find the hospital's missing CEO. Someone is determined that Justice fails. While he investigates the cases, twins suddenly become ill and a death occur in the same hospital. The kidnapping and illness have one person in common, they are the pediatric patients of the ambitious Dr. Gracie McIntosh. They are also African Americans.