During the shootout between the bandits who took the hostages and the police, both the bandits, the hostages, and the police were killed. Only twelve-year-old Melinda Wilson survived. Detective Morton doubted that the bandits and police shot each other so successfully. A thorough investigation led him to the only suspect... More precisely, to the suspect. Morton vowed to take revenge on the murderer of his brother and his colleagues, but agents of the magical intelligence service intervened in the matter, seeing in Melinda a very gifted child whose magical abilities could be useful in the future...