It was a weary morning when seventeen year old Samantha "Mischief" Summers woke up in Daylight tower off the coast of the Boston beach in Massachusetts. Her hands had been tied up behind her back and her mouth had been tied up with a piece of cloth. Her neighbor’s son, eighteen year old Robert Matthews was only a few inches right next to her was also tied and gagged. Robert was passed out. Samantha tried to wake him up but couldn’t. She looked around and panicked and passed out as well.

On the bright morning of spring of 2017, twenty years later, Samantha Summers, now Mrs. Horne was a married woman with two children, Oscar and Tiffany. Her husband, Drew Horne a Pharmacy technician at the local pharmacy in Yonkers, New York worked long hours to support his family. Mrs. Horne ran a part-time catering business from the house they had inherited from Drew’s grandparents, usually at birthdays, weddings, dinner parties, holiday celebration, etc.

Oscar, eighteen years old had completed high school and was working as a cashier at Joe’s Burgers. Tiffany, sixteen years old was junior at Rosewell High school in Yonkers. Two blocks from the Hornes’s house lived the Browns and across the street was a white family, the Thompsons. The Brown family, who ran a family laundromat, just like the Hornes were African Americans who’s great grandparents had migrated from the south during the first great migration in early 20th century. The Browns had four kids, Jerome, nineteen years, Linda, sixteen, Porsha, fifteen and Jason, twelve.

The Hornes, Browns and Thompsons often hosted each other at their homes and their children got along with each other. Nathaniel Thompson, a middle aged Insurance agent, who was married to his second wife, Giselle, a bank teller, had one child from a previous marriage and two children with his current wife. Dorothy his first born was twenty two years old, his two sons Sydney was eighteen and Hal was seventeen.