Justice is blind—but vengeance sees all.
Jedidiah “Jed” Bouvier, a weary idealist and recovering alcoholic, is defending Dexter Wayne Jones—the most reviled man in the county. A confirmed serial rapist and suspected murderer who is a copycat of the infamous Golden State Killer, Jones is on trial for slaughtering a family decades earlier. The evidence is damning.
And yet—a first jury couldn’t agree on a verdict.
Jed and his co-counsel, Tara Singh, battled relentless prosecutor Catalina “Cat” Galvez in the high-stakes retrial, but sinister forces are moving behind the scenes, driven by a ruthless desire for justice the courts are unable to deliver. A juror from the first trial is murdered; another disappears. Jed’s neighbor, a hulking ex-cop with a dark secret, seems peculiarly interested in the proceedings.
Tensions are high as the second jury becomes hopelessly deadlocked. Meanwhile, Jed’s girlfriend, a beautiful woman with a stunning secret of her own, mysteriously vanishes.
Will a killer walk free?
Set in fictional Murrieta County, California, north of Sacramento, what begins as a legal drama explodes in a terrifying descent into moral ambiguity, as Jed uncovers the true identity of the woman he loves—and the nightmarish truth about delayed justice, retribution, and the price of idealism in a broken system.
Fans of John Grisham, Scott Turow, Lisa Scottoline, and Michael Connelly will be riveted by this twist-packed legal mystery that tests the limits of law, loyalty, and the human soul.