In Failure To Warn, Sophia Panos, teacher and therapist, begins another routine teaching year at Ripon College, thinking nothing out of the ordinary could possibly happen. But a student presents Sophia with a restraining order on a young man that is also in her class. Shortly afterward the young woman is found dead and the young man is the prime suspect. Slowly, Sophia begins to suspect one of her clients of the murder, but is bound by the code of her professional ethics. Torn between her professional world and her desire to bring the killer to justice, she must find a way to resolve her personal and professional crisis.