When gifted New York prosecutor Alexandra Locke puts her rising career on hold to be near her dying mother, she hesitatingly accepts a position in the office of her father, Thomas Kendall, the politically ambitious Los Angeles District Attorney. But their already strained father-daughter relationship grows far worse when Alexandra hears a shocking deathbed confession that implicates him in a brutal murder and cover-up.
Flying in the face of her father's re-election bid, Alexandra vows to investigate. Yet, after drugs are planted in her apartment and the police are tipped off, she realises that more than her carer is in jeopardy. Alexandra joins forces with her handsome former lover, and together they pry open a case that was once nailed shut. But the deeper they dig, the more questions arise, and the more Alexandra is drawn into a sordid web of dark family secrets that leave her wondering how much her father really knew. Torn between duty and loyalty, Alexandra races to discover the truth - a truth that might destroy everything and everyone she holds dear.
