A secret affair. A deadly agenda. A PI caught in the middle.
Jorja Knight's latest cases have pushed her limits as a private investigator. When a distraught woman hires her to confirm suspicions of her husband's infidelity, Jorja welcomes the seemingly routine job.
But from the moment she accepts the assignment, something feels off, and soon, her instincts prove right.
The mistress turns up dead, and Jorja is haunted by the thought that her investigation may have played a deadly role. Hired by the defense lawyer to help dismantle a seemingly airtight case against her client, Jorja is pulled into the murder investigation. Digging into the details of the homicide, unsettling questions about the accused's innocence start to surface. Meanwhile, personal crises threaten to derail everything she's built.
As Jorja unearths secrets buried in the victim's past, she's led down a dark, twisted path of deception and deadly motives to a more shocking truth-one that someone is willing to kill to keep hidden. With time running out and her own life in turmoil, Jorja must untangle a web of lies to uncover the real motive and expose the killer. But what if the very person she's fighting to defend
is
the one who pulled the trigger?