In this gritty, fast-paced crime novel, a resilient ex-con seeks redemption and uncovers a web of high-stakes secrets as Detective Leonid McGill tries to prove her innocence.
Zella Grisham never denied shooting her boyfriend. Thatâs not why she did eight years of hard time on a sixteen-year sentence. Itâs that the shooting inadvertently led to charges of grand theft. Talk about bad luck.
Leonid McGill has reasons to believe sheâs innocent. But reopening the case is only serving to unsettle McGillâs private life even furtherâand expose a family secret thatâs like a kick to the gut.
As the case unfolds, as the truth of what happened eight years ago becomes more damning and more complex than anyone dreamed, McGill and Zella realize that everyone is guilty of something, and that sometimes the sins of the past can be too damaging to ever forget. Or ever forgive.