Publisher's Synopsis
During a terrible heat wave in 1991, ten-year-old Anton has been locked in an apartment in the projects, alone, for seven days, without air conditioning or a fan. Juanita, his mother, is discovered in a crack house less than three blocks away. She went out for a quick hit, but her drug dealer raped her and kept her high. Anton is placed with child services while Juanita goes to jail. Desperate to have a child in the house again after the death of his teenage son, Judge David Coleman uses his power and connections to keep his new foster son, Anton, with him and his wife, Delores. Following in his adopted family's footsteps, Anton rises within the establishment. But when he discovers the truth about his life, his birth mother, and his adopted parents, this man of the law must come to terms with the moral complexities of crimes committed by the people he loves most.
