When two orphans, living with foster parents who don't allow pets, keep secretly caring for their dog discover stray dogs in an abandoned hotel, they fix up the building and get help from their friends to run the new shelter.

Everybody a superhero inside of them, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson's case, by shouting out one word, this streetwise fourteen-year-old foster kid can turn into an adult superhero, courtesy of an ancient wizard. Still a kid at heart, inside a ripped, godlike body, he revels in this adult version of himself by doing what any teen would do with superpowers: have fun with them! But he'll need to master these powers quickly...

The day their colleague Daniel Martinezs foster son is kidnapped from a wedding reception homicide detectives Deborah Smith and Alex Luna find the remains of a little girl not far from the abduction site. Determined to save the boy and solve the murder the team travels from San Antonios drug-dealing gang territory to the back roads of rural America exposing the cracks in an overburdened understaffed foster care system -- Publisher.