Oklahoma attorney Ben Kincaid put his reputation on the line when he represented Ray Goldman. The seemingly mild-mannered industrial chemist was charged with a staggeringly brutal crime: the torture and massacre of an entire suburban Tulsa family. Ben's deft defense against a lack of hard evidence and improper police procedure made an acquittal all but certain, until the prosecution's star witness, the lone survior of the slaughter, took the stand and sealed Ray Goldman's fate. Seven years later, Goldman's date with the death chamber is at hand, but seconds before the lethal injection, a reprieve halts the execution. Erin Faulkner, the young woman who narrowly escaped the carnage that claimed her family, has abruptly recanted her testimony after years of silence, desperate to keep an innocent man from dying. Just as suddenly, the near-miraculous turn of events turns tragic when Erin is discovered dead, an apparent suicide, and Ben Kincaid is the only witness to her stunning confession. Ben is certain Erin didn't commit suicide; she was silenced by the same killer who butchered her family