If you want to be a successful lawyer, what you need are cases you can win and clients who can pay their bills. When Latrice Bledsoe shows up in Gideon Page's office, she begs him to take her husband's case - he's been accused of murder - and neither his alibi nor the family checkbook will stand up to close examination. Despite a potential loser of a case and despite the popular wisdom that says you can't go home again, this murder in Bear Creek, Arkansas, the little town where Gideon was born, forces him to ignore all the old rules and take the job. He isn't taking this one for love or money - he's taking it because it offers him the chance to finally get his revenge on the man who years ago destroyed the Page family business and his mother's life. But as Gideon prepares for trial, he discovers that not only is his current case more complicated and treacherous than he imagined, but his past is also different from what he remembered. Faced with two mysteries to solve, Gideon finds his hopes of both victory and revenge beginning to fade even as he begins to fall in love with the girl - now a woman - whom he left behind in Bear Creek almost a lifetime ago.