Lucy Stolz is an investigator into judicial corruption. She never expected to be in the firing line. Until she met Grey Myres. Myres knows a whistleblower who has the dirt on a female judge in league with organized crime. She has hustled through legislation for the building of a casino on an Indian reservation. Anyone who opposed the scheme is dead. The judge and her friends have made several fortunes from the skimmed profits

Ninety one year old Ira Levinson is in trouble. Struggling to stay conscious after a car crash, an image of his adored and long dead wife Ruth appears. Urging him to hang on, she lovingly recounts the joys and sorrows of their life together: how they met, the dark days of WWII and its unrelenting effect on their families
A few miles away, college student Sophia Danko´s life is about to change when she meets the young, rugged Luke and is thrown into a world far removed from her privileged school life. Sophia sees a tantalizing future for herself, but Luke is keeping a secret that could destroy it all