Twelve years ago, a young girl disappeared. Now a filmmaker has made a
movie about it. The girl's parents call it invasion of privacy. A woman
lawyer calls it murder.
The bloodstains on the courtroom floor belong to attorney Nina Reilly.
Months earlier she'd been shot during a heated murder trial. She should
have died that day. Instead, Nina has returned to the same Lake Tahoe
court. Her only concession to her lingering fear is to give up criminal
law. She figures an invasion of privacy lawsuit is a nice, safe civil
action that will help her support her young son and pay the bills for
her one-woman law office. She figures wrong.
Nina's client is Terry London, a filmmaker whose documentary about a
missing girl is raising disturbing questions. The girl's distraught
parents believe the film invades their privacy. But Terry's brutal
murder changes everything. Breaking her promise to herself, Nina decides
to defend Terry's accused murderer, a man she'd known years before and
hoped never to see again. Suddenly the secrets of Nina's past are
beginning to surface in a murder case that gets more dangerous every
day. The evidence against her client is shocking and ironclad--a video
of Terry's dying words. The only chance Nina has to save the man may be
illegal. And if it fails, Nina may lose the case, her practice...and
even her life.
