The acclaimed author of such thrillers as

The First Lady

and

The Marilyn Tapes

returns with another gripping novel that exposes the scandalous underbelly of American politics.

Senator David Cummings is a revered senior statesman who has sent many blessings back to his home state. District Attorney Amy McGuire owes her career in large part to Cummings’s patronage. But when a teenage girl is brutally murdered and suspicion falls upon Amy’s irresponsible younger brother, Richie, the senator has his own reasons for seeing that Richie is convicted of the crime.

Amy finds her loyalties torn, and her career in jeopardy, as she struggles to get to the bottom of the crime. She thought she knew all the people in her life, but now she can trust only her instincts.

And that may not be enough...