Poppy is a little pig that dreams of being a star, and even though her first attempts all fail, the support and love of her family and friends encourage her to keep trying and working hard to find something that she loves doing, and is good at.
After watching a taped interview with Rona Leigh Glueck, a convicted ax-murderer who will be the first woman to be executed in Texas since the Civil War, FBI investigator Poppy Rice discovers something that causes her to reopen the investigation.
The discovery of an unidentified pregnant woman whose body washes ashore on a rocky Boston beach sends FBI agent Poppy Rice on a quest to uncover the truth about the crime, which is linked by DNA to a similar drowning thirty years earlier