In the predawn hours of a quiet Sacramento suburb, respected orthopedic surgeon Phillip Madison is charged with double homicide--a cold-blooded hit-and run that has left a young couple dead. Blood evidence has brought the authorities to his door. An eyewitness has placed him at the scene of the crime. And Madison has no alibi.

As his privileged world is brought crashing down by a psychotic seductress, as family and friends abandon him, Madison's only hope for vindication rests in revealing a truth at the heart of a lie. It's a disclosure that could cost him more than he imagined.