From NY Times bestselling author and former top prosecutor Linda Fairstein comes an electrifying thriller wealthy using the riveting behind-the-scenes authenticity that only she can provide.

It’s going to be a tough trial. Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper’s case, concerning an assault on investment banker Paige Vallis, would be tough to prove also without the latest development-it appears that Paige has something to hide.

Most of her story is crystal clear. She’d had supper with New about The Kills York advisor Andrew Tripping 3 x before the March night time when she accepted his invitation to accompany him to his house. But what happened that night? Why didn’t she keep the apartment when he started to take action strangely? How about Tripping’s little young man, Dulles? What happened to the kid that fateful evening? And who is the strange man whose appearance in the courtroom appears to terrify Paige?

While Alex’s police detective friend Mercer Wallace assists her find out more from the sad information behind the increasingly puzzling rape case, colleague Mike Chapman is uptown in a decaying Harlem brownstone where eighty-two-year-old McQueen Ransome continues to be murdered, her apartment ransacked.

What could this impoverished, elderly female have possessed that could have inspired such assault? Photographs over the wall claim that “Queenie” was once a lovely and voluptuous youthful woman who traveled to faraway areas. Could there be considered a clue to her murder in her exotic background?

Her murder will be just the first. Others follow, as the tragic strands of the Paige Vallis and McQueen Ransome cases start to converge inside a poignant alliance of two ladies from very different worlds.

Faced with formidable personal and professional choices, Alex must find out the outdated lesson that appearances can easily deceive, even while she heads for the showdown where her wits and her courage will be tested as nothing you’ve seen prior.