Ella Roland made her name as the lawyer oil companies called when they wanted farmers flattened. Then her husband and little boy vanished, taken by a shadowy group, and for three years she has lived with the silence and the blame. A matching tattoo on a suspect's arm finally gives her a lead.
With her principled partner Julian and nervous assistant Milo, Ella returns to the villa she abandoned, only to have it blow up around her. Now she is fighting for the same powerless people she once crushed, while someone who knows her son's secret code is pulling her toward a trap she may not walk out of.
