THIS GENERATION'S BEST WRITER OF LEGAL THRILLERS . . . HIS STRONGEST FICTION TO DATE.

--Entertainment Weekly

Attorney Tony Lord left his hometown and the bitter memories of his girlfriend's murder behind. Now, twenty-eight years later, he's pulled back to Lake City to defend his closest high school friend against a charge of homicide.

"ENTHRALLING . . . THE DENOUEMENT IS POWERFUL."

--Los Angeles Times Book Review

Sam Robb, the married father of two, is a local football legend. But he was also the last to see sixteen-year-old Marcie Calder alive, and as shocking forensic evidence at the trial reveals, he is the father of her unborn child.

"INTENSE COURTROOM DRAMA . . . AS STARTLING AS THE BANG OF A GAVEL."

--People

Probing the darkest recesses of love and friendship, Lord will discover things too disturbing to ignore--that Sam wasn't the only one in Lake City with a motive for killing Marcie, that small-town secrets can hide devastating betrayals, and that the past has a way of repeating itself . . . even in murder.

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