On a hot spring night in South Florida, a beautiful young girl named Kitty Jagger is brutally raped and murdered. Twenty years later, Jack Cade, the man convicted of her slaying is released from prison – only days before a prominent lawyer is found shot to death in his office. It is discovered the dead lawyer is the same man who defended Cade 20 years ago, and Cade is quickly arrested. When Cade’s son comes to Louis Kincaid for help, Louis finds himself "working the other side of the fence" for the first time in his life. He follows a trail of death that links the old case with the new murder and leads him into a web of secrets and lies involving the police, families and an aging detective haunted by the past.