Attorney Sarah Rand returns home from abroad to discover 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 Sarah's still alive -- except the killers still hunting her down.

Alone and on the run, Sarah desperately seaches 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 is forced to turn to Owen Dean, a man she barely knows -- a man who has secrets of his own. But what she needs to stay alive . . . is someone she can trust.