Two brutal murders Two dead high school students Two families bereaved Two men suspected of killing their lovers ... Twenty-eight years separate the crimes that link Tony Lord and Sam Robb In 1967 Tony Lord is suspected of killing his girlfriend Alison, but the case never comes to trial, and Tony has never officially cleared his name in a case that is still open. In 1995, Tony is a successful San Francisco attorney and receives a desperate call from Sam's wife: Sam has been accused of the murder of one of his students. Reluctantly, but inevitably, Tony agrees to defend his boyhood friend. At once, Tony is plunged into the unfinished business of his past. And in the merciless arena of the murder trial, he must face not only his fear that Sam is a killer, but also the dark, buried truths that surround Alison's death all those years earlier ...