Shawn adores his little girl, who isn't so little anymore. Juliet finds out it is hard to be the mother of a 16 year old girl who has a personality identical to hers and who resents her job. Regardless, the Spencer family makes it work, just the three of them. But what happens when a case threatens to break everything they live for?

When a mission goes horribly wrong for Juliet and Lassie, Juliet must deal with the realization that Shawn was faking it all along.

"I'd always wondered what Sherlock's childhood was like. To better understand him... and out of wild curiosity. I learned all about it when E. walked into our lives. With her similarities to him and dissimilarities, I think it sent his newly-returned-from-the-grave brain into a tail spin. Not to mention "the Problem of the Pretty Pathologist." - from the blog of John Watson, MD.

Of course it had been Jules who had been the one to figure him out. And of course she would tell the chief. How could he have thought he could hide something like this from someone as perceptive as her? Shawn knew it was time to leave again.

"You need to hang on, Shawn," She said. He shook his head and reached out a hand to touch her face. But just like every other time he had tried to touch her in this prison, she disappeared. He didn't want to hang on, not if she really was gone.

She didn't cry becasue she promised him she wouldn't. No matter what. And that promise was all she had left of him.

Taking place in the year 2024, Shawn & Juliet's 15 year old daughter AnneMarie is the center of tale of Tragedy, First Romances, and various other things.