Tess Gilroy is an investigator for Innocence UK, an organization that tries to free unjustly convicted people from jail. She is working on the case of Carrie Kamara, whose daughter contacted Tess’s employer to plead her mother’s case. Carrie is serving a 15 year sentence for fatally stabbing her husband’s lover. Tess has to find the real killer, but a secret from her past returns to haunt her and could impact the case. Paula Daly pens a gripping novel that gives the reader a birds-eye view into a women’s prison and the justice system.