A migrant worker is found shot to death on Copper Mountain, north of the town of Granite, Arizona, throwing the county sheriff's department into a turmoil. Then Granite High School is broken into. Are the two incidents connected? That's something Belle Evans, newly hired security counselor for the school system, is trying to find out. Belle's experience as a counselor and her training at the police academy have given her the qualifications for the job. Still, she's not quite prepared to deal with Carl Rey Escobedo, the angry boy who broke into the school the year before. Carl, in not very pleasant terms, insists he didn't do it this time. Belle seeks help from Sheriff McFarland, but he has his hands full with the killing on Copper Mountain and the search for a companion to the murdered man now on the loose somewhere in town. As the two cases begin to merge, what Belle thought was simply a matter of theft turns out to involve her in a far more dangerous game until she becomes the target of a killer.