Lady Justice isn t blind; she sees the world through the corrective lenses of flawed statutes, fallible judges, cutthroat lawyers and avenging cops. When Randle, an intractable renegade, and Carrie, his disinhibited and exploitative wife, are thrown into the meat grinder of the Civil Court System, their simple divorce becomes a twisted tale of treachery, betrayal, miscalculations and ill-conceived murder plots. One disheveled, easy-to-underestimate detective doggedly pursues a conventional resolution but is Randle and Carrie, operating beyond the boundaries of the Justice System, who decide the fair apportionment of blame for the collapse of their marriage. Defiled proves once again that most evil acts are committed by perfectly ordinary people subjected to extraordinary stresses."