Publisher's Synopsis
When beautiful and idealistic law student Judy Alexander signs up for the Exoneration Clinic at a financially
challenged law school in mid-town Manhattan, she has hopes of investigating and righting wrongful
convictions. Instead, she is drawn into a media-hyped case in Texas in which a man accused of murder declines
all legal assistance and offers to plead guilty--but only in exchange for being sentenced to death. Convinced
of his innocence, Judy follows leads which lead first to Catalina Island off the coast of California, and then
inexorably to a nineteen year old cold case in which a young girl mysteriously disappeared without a trace
while visiting the iconic French landmark of Mont St. Michel, an ancient medieval monastery atop an isolated
island which was occupied by a contingent of Nazi soldiers during World War II.
