District attorney Lily Forrester has devoted her career to upholding the criminal justice system. But when her teenage daughter is raped in their own home and the legal system is powerless to help, she takes matters into her own hands.

Lily Forrester, a Ventura County judge, finds herself in a mix of bizarre circumstances that lead her onto the trail of a vicious criminal mind. Her husband calls her from a Las Vegas jail where he has been arrested for attempted rape-but Las Vegas wasn't on his itinerary. His accuser, Anne Bradley, is an enigmatic woman with an eerie past, a woman to whom Lily is strangely drawn. FBI Agent Mary Stevens is tracking a killer whose victims are husbands...