This is the kind of crime the tabloids love... This is the kind of case most lawyers dream of... This is the kind of trial that destroys more lives than it saves... this is the kind of aterrific debut novela( Sheldon Siegel, "New York Times" BestSelling Author of "Judgment Day") that reinvents the legal thriller. A preacher is stabbed to death in a Tennessee motel. The suspect is a waitress at a strip club. Defense attorney Joe Dillardas too burnt out to defend anyone he knows in his heart is guilty. Then he meets the vulnerable Angelathe accused, incriminated by circumstantial evidence. Dillardas sure sheas not capable of killing anyone. What Dillard doesnat count on are the others drawn into the storm of the stunning crimeafrom the vindictive detective to the victimas avenging son to Dillardas own deeply troubled sisteraall of whom will help to erase the line between guilt and innocence, and between an unthinkable lie and the unbelievable truth.