Maggie Chen was born with ink in her blood. Her journalist father has fired her imagination with the thrill of the newsroom. But now Maggie's father has been killed, and she is determined to keep their dreams alive by interning at the local newspaper.

While assisting on her first story, suspicion of illegal activity falls on Maggie's father, and she knows she must clear his name. Drawn to Seattle's Chinatown, what she finds is far from what she expected: secrets, lies, and a connection to the Chinese Exclusion Era. Using all of her newspaper instincts and resources, Maggie is forced to confront her ethnicity - and a family she never knew.