For defense lawyer Samantha Brinkman, it’s not about guilt or innocence-it’s about making sure her clients walk.

In the startling sequel to Marcia Clark’s bestselling Blood Defense, Samantha is hired as the legal advocate for Cassie Sonnenberg after a brutal stabbing left the teenager’s father and brother dead, and her mother barely clinging alive. It’s a tabloid-ready case that has the nation in an uproar-and Sam facing her biggest task yet. Why did Cassie survive? Is definitely she hiding something?

As Sam digs directly into find the answers, she’s amazed to find herself identifying with Cassie, becoming a lot more personally entangled in the case. However when Sam finally discovers the reason behind that kinship, she encounters a choice she never thought she’d need to make.