In her seven years a s a hard-driving assistant, Jan Garret has been told more times than one that she needs to distance her self from her cases. Yet each time she puts a lowlife behind bars, she considers it one more blow struck at the vicious rapist her murdered her sister Frannie.
So, when a case bearing a striking similarity to Frannie's lands on her desk, Jan is understandably intrigued. She's also unexpectedly and urgently attracted to the new detective in town. Like Jan, Max Hale is driven by a need to avenge a loved one's death. The only person willing to even listen to Jan's suspicions, he finds himself entering her private nightmare. . . one that takes a terrifying turn when Jan realizes that man who confessed to her sister's rape couldn't have been guilty all those years ago.