The ultrawealthy families of Chouteau Forest may look down on a woman like death investigator Angela Richman, but they also rely on her. When a horrific car crash kills a Forest teenager, Angela is among the first on the scene. Her investigation is hardly underway, however, when she suffers a series of crippling strokes. Misdiagnosed by the resident neurologist, Dr. Gravois, and mended by gauche yet brilliant neurosurgeon Dr. Jeb Travis Tritt, Angela faces a harrowing recovery. It s a drug-addled, hallucinating Angela who learns that Dr. Gravois has been murdered and the chief suspect is the surgeon who saved her life. Angela doesn t believe it, but can she trust her instincts? Her brain trauma brings doubts that she ll ever recover her investigative skills. But she s determined to save Dr. Tritt from a death-row sentence even if her progress is thwarted at every turn by a powerful and insular community poised to protect its own.