Marty Nickerson, a Cape Cod DA turned defense lawyer, must defend a man who shot his sons presumed killer -- on live television. In a seemingly unrelated case, a battered woman is held for the murder of her spouse, and all evidence points to her as the murderess. Now with two seemingly unwinnable murder cases on her slate, a losing verdict may be the least of her worries as Martys harrowing hunt for the truth leads to shocking revelations and possible links that may put her in the sight line of a vengeful and all too capable killer.

Rose Connors received her law degree from Duke University in 1984 and has been a trial attorney for two decades. She is the author of Absolute Certainty, which won the Mary Higgins Clark Award for best first novel. She lives with her family on Cape Cod, where she spends summers commercial shell fishing with her two teenage sons