Deputy D.A. Kathryn Mackay takes on the case of her career as she works to convict a criminal of attempted murder while balancing the personal crisis of a lifetime in this courtroom drama by New York Times bestselling author Christine McGuire.

In a history-making case, the California district attorney's office has charged a defendant with attempted murder by intentional infliction of HIV, and they're counting on Deputy D.A. Kathryn Mackay to make the conviction.

But when a bomb explodes in the courtroom, disabling a young inspector, Kathryn joins the investigators in a deadly race against time and she suspects a connection between the bombing and trial.

Working alongside her lover, Dave Granz, the inspector assigned to the case, and balancing a personal crisis of one of the most frightening challenges a woman can possibly face, Kathryn is in a race against time to solve this case and stop the criminal in his tracks.