Attorney Sarah Rand returns home from abroad to discover that she is a dead woman. In shocked disbelief she realizes the murder victim mistakenly identified as her was really her best friend. No one knows that Sarah is still alive-except the killers still hunting her down. Alone and on the run, Sarah desperately searches for answers. Why has her boss and mentor, a prominent local judge, been arrested for the crime? What does she have or know that's worth killing for? And what are the most powerful people in exclusive Newport-a senator, a dying professor and his embittered wife, a top-notch security expert and a cadre of criminals-determined to hide. With danger closing in, Sarah must turn to a man she barely knows-Owen Dean, a Hollywood celebrity with dark secrets of his own. But what she needs to stay alive...is someone she can trust.