Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper is deeply involved in a complicated, high profile homicide case against defendant Brendan Quillian, a prominent young businessman is charged with the brutal strangulation of his beautiful young wife. His conviction is not a certainty: Quillian was conveniently out of town on the day of the killing, and his defense attorney seems to be one step ahead of Coopers effort to prove Quillian paid a hit man to commit the crime.

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