One cool November evening when Kat Kominski was fifteen years old, she and some friends organized a convenience store. In the heat of as soon as, one of the others shot and wiped out an off-duty cop moonlighting as a security safeguard. Kat and her pals fled the scene in a panic, no one was caught. Thirteen years later, Kat – now Kate Light – has built a new existence for herself. Today a single mother using a nine-year-old son, she functions as a prosecutor in the Philadelphia DA’s workplace. But her dark previous results about Guilty to haunt her when she walks into court 1 day and has a devastating encounter with a prisoner, Mario Castellanos, among her companions from that horrible night. Hardcore criminal Mario is definitely facing a possible sentence of twenty years. He enables Kate know that he is relying on her, his previous friend turned prosecutor, to be sure he goes free rather. If Kate doesn’t do what he desires, he’ll state she was the one who wiped out the off-duty cop. Kate is in a bind: If the truth about her past gets out, she stands to lose everything, including her boy. But she can’t do what Mario desires, either. As Mario ups his needs, blackmailing and terrorizing her, she is forced to turn for security to an attractive homicide detective, Tom Braga, who suspects her of…something. The two clash frequently as Tom retains digging into her past, learning the truth. After that another, a lot more menacing, threat rears its head, and Kate realizes that her existence – and her son’s – are in terrible risk. Frantic, she views that she’s nowhere to turn. Except, maybe, to Tom….