Brilliant and tenacious, DA Rachel Knight lives and breathes her work and disdains office politics - a combustible combination that often gets her into trouble. She is a stalwart member of the elite Special Trials Unit, a small group of handpicked prosecutors that handles the toughest, most sensitive, and most celebrated cases in the LA District Attorney's Office. At the end of a typical ten-hour day, Rachel has her sights set on an ice-cold martini...

When the teenage daughter of billionaire mega-director Russell Antonovich is found murdered, Special Trials DA Rachel Knight takes the case. It's exactly the kind of work Rachel and the Special Trials Unit are known for: tough, high-profile, and dangerous. But the circumstances of this investigation hit closer to the deep secrets of Rachel's past than any before. She summons all of her strength and the help of Detective Bailey Keller to start building...