Ellen Carter's career is on the rocks. She hasn't written a worthy novel since her husband went missing and she was suspected by the police of murdering him. To top it all off, she has reason to believe that her new tenant Leslie Steckler is the serial killer responsible for a number of deaths in the region. But what she doesn't know is that, in the meantime, Steckler has discovered a little secret about her......
A rising prosecutor spends the night at a rival defense attorney's home. Awakened next to his murdered body, things go from bad to worse when she's asked to prosecute his murder....