"The Honorable Alice D. McKerrity is no stranger to violence...But there's something about this trial--a defendant charged with the murder of a pregnant woman--that affects her as no other case ever has...As the trial progresses, Alice's life starts to unravel...Then she makes a shocking discovery that sends her on a collision course with her past...she must face a decades-buried truth as she fights for her survival against a cunning adversary that forces her to question everything she ever believed about herself...and tests her limits as a woman, a judge, and a mother"--