In Chiang Mai, Thailand, nine-year-old Tua releases an abused elephant from its chains--can she complete the rescue by getting it to an elephant refuge without being caught herself?

Cooper Sullivan is reunited with childhood sweetheart Lil Chance, with whom he spent every summer, when he returns to his grandparent's Black Hills ranch to care for them and becomes involved in an investigation into a perpetrator who has been pulling pranks on Lil Chance's wildlife refuge which may be linked to the dead body of a hiker Cooper and Lil Chance found when they were children.