Meg Gibson

Carrie dates a writer, and feels like she's dating his family as well. Miranda dates a divorced father.

A 10-year-old girl, separated from her family at the US-Mexico border, ends up in a New York sex-trafficking ring. Benson and Stone battle to reunite her with her mother.

Philip and Elizabeth are given an urgent task to plant a bug in Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger's office, but they risk exposure when an unwilling maid of the Weinberger home refuses to cooperate.

Stabler and Beck have trouble building a case against a rape suspect, until a brand-new witness comes forward.

An eight-year-old girl dies in the explosion of an Upper East Side brownstone and detectives determine faulty wiring is to blame, but with little evidence it is difficult to prove the case.

Elizabeth and Philip take increasingly greater risks; Stan pursues Directorate S.