New Mexico attorney Tara Linleys belief in the power and fairness of the law is shaken when she takes on her best friends lover as a client. After reluctantly agreeing to represent him, Tara discovers the shocking crime he has committed. Bound by the attorney-client privilege, caught in a web of escalating circumstances that threaten not only her professional reputation but her life, Tara soon finds herself at the mercy of her unstable client&a man who is growing more dangerous every day.