With her promotion to evening news anchor, plus the plum assignment of covering a sensational murder trial for her network, television journalist Delaney Wright is on the brink of stardom. Yet something is missing from her life. She should be celebrating, but her increasingly urgent need to locate her birth mother consumes her thoughts. On trial for murder is Betsy Grant, widow of a wealthy doctor, who claims she loved her husband and would never have harmed him--even to put him out of the misery of early onset Alzheimer's disease. When her once-upon-a-time celebrity lawyer urges her to accept a plea bargain, Betsy refuses: She will go to trial to prove her innocence. Meanwhile, Betsy's stepson, Alan Grant, nervously bides his time as the trial begins. Alan's substantial inheritance hangs in the balance--his only viable means of making good on the payments he needs to support his ex-wife and his children, not to speak of his increasingly angry creditors. When Delaney's friends Alvirah Meehan and her husband Willy offer to look into the mystery surrounding her birth, they uncover a shocking secret they do not want to reveal. As the trial unfolds and the damning evidence against Betsy piles up, the son of an Oscar-winning director overdoses and a burglar too smart for his own good is arrested, while Delaney's relentless pursuit of the truth outside the courtroom puts her life in imminent danger.