Maci Malone Ramsey has a stable and secure life until her husband, a prominent physician, is arrested in connection with the death of one of his patients. The case against Dr. Seymour Ramsey appears cut-and dried, and in desperation, the couple calls in Seymour's estranged son, Holt, a brilliant attorney. Although Holt loathes his father, he agrees to meet with them, and Maci's world explodes when she realizes he's the man she shared a night of nameless passion with two years before. Now they must walk a tightrope of raw, dizzying emotion, devastating secrets and divided loyalties.