Her first case upon waking is a young man accused of a violent crime. He insists he is innocent. She does not remember the specifics of the trial, but the courtroom is certain of her credentials. The prosecution needs her expertise to seal his fate. She needs to understand why her body is covered in bruises and why every shadow in her apartment triggers a primal panic. As she reconstructs his broken timeline, she begins to see patterns that mirror her own—fabricated grief, manufactured love, a life built on a lie.
A pulse-pounding journey into the ethics of memory and the cost of self-deception, this novel offers a labyrinthine plot where alliances shift with every chapter and no motive remains hidden for long. For those who crave stories about bad people trying to do good things, and the secrets that define us.
She wanted the truth. But the truth came with a memory of her hands—and what they did to the person she loved most.
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