The Cradle Will Fall emerging from anesthesia, county prosecutor Katie DeMaio witnesses what she prefers to believe is a nightmare induced by her physical condition. But once she returns to work, she finds herself assigned to a particularly alarming case, a crime that violates both natural law and the laws of man-and the evidence suggests that her nightmare is a part of it. As she returns to the hospital for routine surgery, will she discover that she must fight not only for the truth…but for her own life?