A year after the murder of his wife, attorney David Sloane returns to work full time and reconnects with Barclay Reid, opposing counsel in Sloane's most prominent case. Barclay is suffering from her own personal tragedy, the death of her teenage daughter from a drug overdose. Now Barclay has begun an intense crusade against the Russian drug traffickers she holds responsible. Sloane finds himself drawn to this woman and in harm's way when she is accused of murder and Sloane is her chosen defender.