Attorney Jessica Fischer is back, and this time she feels good about helping her client. Susan Wolan is the wife of a county commissioner and the victim of domestic violence. Jessica knows the abuse happened - she's seen the handprints on Susan's body. But she also suspects her client is holding something back from her. What is it - and can she help save Susan from her powerful and connected abuser without damaging her own career? As if all this weren't enough, Jessica is simultaneously forced to deal with her estranged father, who has just come back into her life with secrets of his own. After a fall lands him in the emergency room and Jessica realizes that he and her paralegal, Diane - a person she depends on to keep her sane - might be falling for each other, she wonders if she'll be able to stop herself from falling too. Apart.