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The friendship between a teenage girl and an Irish crime boss becomes twisted when she finds out his true identity...

Fifteen-year-old Riley Donovan has no idea that her father is a bookie. She thinks her mother's death was an accident. Yet, it happened because her father didn't pay the infamous Irish crime boss Johnny McPherson.

Riley doesn't realize that the nice old gentleman named Johnny whom she sits on a bench with each morning is the ruthless crime boss responsible for her mother's death.

As Riley's father spends more and more time drinking, and sleeping with a barfly, Johnny becomes her father figure. He's drawn to Riley because she reminds him of his dead daughter. Riley's curiosity soon leads her to discover Johnny's identity. She enters a dangerous labyrinth from which she must escape.