JUDGE ANITA TOLLIVER is one of those women who appears to have it all-brains, beauty and a highly-respected career in her hometown of Florence, Michigan. Her perfect world takes a drastic turn when her marriage starts to fail, and she enters into a sex-drenched affair with Florence PD Lt. Detective, Sherman Lacy. After a mother and her two children are found brutally murdered, everyone in Florence demands swift retribution. The escalation of the summer's heat has caused tensions to rise. Judge Tolliver is tapped to preside over the case. A conflict exists because Lacy is the lead Detective on the same case. Judge Tolliver knows that she must get the case right, if not, the legal spotlight may reveal her secrets which are radically at odds with her public persona. The question becomes, what is a desperate judge willing to do to protect her secrets?