For decades, the mansion of Dr. Gabriel Lazore has stood abandoned on a sleepy Toronto street, overlooked by the unsettling statue of the doctor's daughter, Gabriella. Rumours abound about the family's sudden disappearance, but the Lazore mansion has been little more than a curio for the neighbours to gossip about. That is, until the little girls start go to missing.Detective Quinn of the Toronto Police Service has seen enough of the city's seedy underbelly to last him a lifetime. Early retirement and a quiet life as a PI catching cheating spouses beckon. But Quinn has a new tenant in his upstairs apartment, the mysterious and bewitching Kirsten, who seems determined to drag him into every kind of trouble imaginable. And another girl has just gone missing near the Lazore...

Salty Saltzmanous's life was pretty dull. After years of hopping from trailer park to trailer park with his family, he thought he would get a new start in a little house deep in Mennonite country; but all that's there to do is work, drink, and argue with his wife. He didn't think it could get much worse-until he accidentally killed her. So he ran. Now it's been fourteen years on the run, living with a lively cast of homeless outcasts in the big city, all of them on the run from their pasts, all of them looking for some kind of salvation. But the police are back on Salty's trail, and the key to the case is his daughter, Sylvia, abandoned to foster care and now fully grown, who has finally decided to track down her missing father... Warm, heartbreaking, and funny, Discards is a modern-day drama of abandonment and redemption.