VICTORIA STERLING is released from prison for murdering her next-door neighbor. She had used her time inside to study defense law and with assistance from her father a respected judge, she passes the bar. Vicky is now back with her son, SIMON, the reason her heart still beats, and her friends who she had got to know and love many years before she was in a woman's refuge. The family who had stuck by her through her time in prison and now it's her time to look out for them. Vicky is smart and devious and uses that combination to win the cases she believes in, and throw the ones which don't fit into her morals. She will defend any criminal as long as they have not hurt women or children and when she meets Alex Ellingham, a nasty piece of work who thinks it's his god given right to beat his wife and two young sons she knows she has to deliberately lose the case and get him the maximum time possible. He had put his wife in a wheelchair and although her job was to represent the man no matter what, he gets thirteen years for attempted murder.Simon marries Lizzy, a girl who fits in perfectly with Vicky and her very extensive family, and the wedding commences with a mixture of ex-cons, barristers, judges, prostitutes, and felons, the day couldn't have gone more perfectly.Although Vicky is busy winning every case she represents and losing the ones she chooses, she decides she needs a vacation so takes an ex-inmate and good friend, Lou on holiday to Grenada where they bump into Carol and Claire, a couple she had helped to break out of nick. Vicky meets a woman, Mia, who begs her to take her two-year-old son, William, a malnourished boy who stole Vicky's heart the moment she had looked into his scared, lost eyes. Mia didn't have long left to live and she knew that Vicky would be able to offer her son a chance in life away from poverty, one that the people of Grenada could only dream of. They sign the adoption papers and Vicky takes him home to her large four bedroom house with an inside swimming pool.Lizzy and Simon bless her with her first grandson, George, and the two of them share a special bond. She knows that her psychopathic tendencies have missed a generation and George is the one who will carry on in her devious footsteps with his uncle William by his side.Vicky bumps into Charles, a man who she had been in love with in the days she was a model and it's not long before they also get married.
