A disabled Vietnam veteran and a teenage girl with fractured identities cross paths on a crowded Manhattan street—an unlikely collision that stirs nightmares neither can outrun. She remembers the scrape of wood and the press of darkness, a locked box that stole her childhood. He knows the quiet malice of the upstate hamlet that raised him, a place where orphaned and abandoned children have vanished for half a century while no one dared ask why. When two small coffins—crates packed with the bones of boys—are unearthed at a remote jobsite outside Cartersville and another child disappears, attorney Nick Mannino, The Good Lawyer, is pulled into a case that will test every conviction he’s ever held.