New Mexico attorney Tara Linley's belief in the power and fairness of the law is shaken when she takes on her best friend's lover as a client. After reluctantly agreeing to represent him, Tara discovers the shocking crime he has committed. Bound by the attorney-client privilege, caught in a web of escalating circumstances that threaten not only her professional reputation but her life, Tara soon finds herself at the mercy of her unstable client...a man who is growing more dangerous every day.