Alembic and Stone investigate when the lower half of a woman's torso is found in a garbage dump. By tracing her designer lingerie, she is identified as Victoria Symmons, the owner of an English as a second language school that specialized in students from Eastern Europe. What they find is that she had a large sum of cash hidden in her apartment and that she would frequently pay for her student's travel expenses. What they learn is that she was in fact running an illegal adoption service and the students at her school were unwed mothers providing the babies. What all of this has to do with her murder becomes central to solving the crime.
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