Attorney Dani Rollins is unyielding in the courtroom - pushing judges and prosecutors to the limit in defense of innocent people. When she meets Teddy Thorne, a mentally challenged teenager accused of drug distribution, she's convinced it will be an easy matter - just a few court appearances and the case will be over. But the prosecutors are trying to try Teddy as an adult, and that would be a severe sentence. Dani gradually suspects that Teddy is being used as a pawn in some kind of sinister game... In his next legal thriller, Victor Methos once again shows that he has a Grishamian insight into the complex gears of guilt and punishment.