To his chagrin, Alaskan PI Cecil Younger learns his teenage daughter
has launched her own detective agency. But when her first case goes
awry, she's going to need some help from an unlikely source: her father,
who's currently locked up in prison.
The verdict from the three-judge panel is in. Cecil Younger, bumbling
criminal defense investigator and totally embarrassing father, has been
sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison for his involvement in . .
. well, a number of things, ranging from destruction of private property
to killing a guy. But compared to the original twenty-five-year
sentence, it's not so bad. His success with getting his sentence reduced
has attracted the attention of his fellow inmates, and one man, Fourth
Street, reaches out for advice for his upcoming parole hearing in
exchange for protection and companionship.
When he isn't reading Adrienne Rich or James Baldwin with Fourth Street,
Cecil spends his time filling up large yellow legal pads. He writes,
mostly, about his teenage daughter, Blossom, who is on a Nancy Drew-like
quest to help her friend, George, discover the truth about her
biological parents, which turns out to be complicated. Shortly after
submitting a mail-in genetics test, George learns she is the infamous
Baby Jane Doe who was kidnapped from her Native mother shortly after she
was born. A media and legal circus quickly ensues, and George's reunion
with her birth family isn't the heartwarming story the journalists hoped
it would be. There is an even darker secret about the baby-snatching
case, a secret threatens to destroy not just George's family--but
Cecil's as well.
