Can you forgive betrayal? The aftershocks of an affair reverberate out to those in the lives of the lovers, who will NOT take it lying down. Jack Connor lives an idyllic life by the Portsmouth seaside married to Caitlin McAllen, a stunning billionaire heiress, and working at his two jobs as the Head of Radar Engineering of Marine Electronics and as the Director of Engineering of McAllen BlackGold, his powerful father-in-law Douglas McAllen's extreme engineering company in Oil & Gas. He loves his two sons from his first marriage and is amicably divorced from his beautiful first wife, Marianne Connor. Their delicately balanced lives are shattered when sexy Michelle Williams, with whom Jack is having a secret affair, is found dead and Jack is arrested on suspicion for murder. Jeremy Reid brings in top London defence attorney, Harry Stavers, to handle his best friend's defence. Who is the bald man with the tattoo of a skull seen entering the victim's house? Who is "KC" to whom Caitlin makes secret calls from a untraceable mobile? Has powerful Douglas McAllen already killed his daughter's first partner and is he capable of killing again? Is Caitlin's brother Ronnie McAllen's power struggle with Jack for the control of McAllen Industries so intense that he is prepared to kill and frame his brother-in-law? Is the divorce from Jack's first wife as amicable on her part as they believe it to be? Are his sons prepared to kill for their vast inheritance? Who are the ghosts from Caitlin's past in Aberdeen, Scotland haunting the marriage? What is the involvement of Jack's manager at Marine Electronics? While Jack is charged and his trial proceeds in the Crown Court under Harry Stavers' expert care, Jeremy runs a race against time to find the real killer and save his friend's life, if he is in fact innocent, in a tense saga of entangled loyalties, love, desire, power, and ambition. A classic mystery, a legal thriller, and a probing look at the psychology of dealing with fatal mistakes, betrayal, and regrets through a magnifying glass.