Are you responsible for a life saved--or is that life owed to you? When CID agent Luke Cassine rescued a young girl from a Mexican drug cartel in 1999, he never imagined one day she would grow up to become his bitter enemy-a mysterious woman determined to bury him. When identities are finally revealed, Luke Cassine and his nemesis, Madelyn Hedrin, must work together in a San Francisco courtroom to expose the perfidious acts of a common enemy, an enemy that will stop at nothing to protect a secret surveillance program-even if it means killing Luke Cassine minutes after the trial. In a heartbeat, Madelyn must answer her karma: what do you do when you learn the man you were trying to kill, who once saved your life, is now about to die? As Luke is fond of saying, "Karma can be a bitch."