After an explosive case that forced Tony Hill and Carol Jordan to reassess everything they thought they knew about right and wrong, both are coping with the fallout in their own separate ways. While Tony must pay out the price for his activities, Carol is conducting investigations into suspected miscarriages of justice. However when a surprising discovery is manufactured on a structure site, and skeletal continues to be are located to participate in a killer who’s supposedly alive and in jail, instantly, Tony and Carol are brought into each other’s orbit once again…

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