The owner of The Strange Sanctuary and Petting Zoo, Epiphany Strange, is 19 when her story takes place. She has two younger brothers and two younger sisters that she's now raising. The five used to have an abusive father -- not anymore -- and a mother who was/is a drunk. When chopped up parts of the father are found in trashbags in the landfill, Epiphany says that her father was killed but that he wasn't murdered and she acts really surprised that you're not allowed to chop up a dead body and throw it away to get rid of it ... and stonewalls the investigation. That's where Jack McMillan, the D.A. comes in -- sorting through the evidence, the testimony, and trying to figure out what happened and what to do about it. This is a story about family -- several of them that cross paths.