Publisher's Synopsis
Joe Payton has it all. Perfect wife, perfect business deal after perfect business deal, more money than he can ever spend, two amazing daughters, and a close knit group of friends. He has the entire world by the tail. But when his wife is murdered in a brutal fashion he finds himself the prime suspect, with hard physical evidence at the crime scene that could put him away for life. With the whole community and the police department convinced he did it and looking for a quick trial and quicker verdict Joe finds himself in the biggest pit of hell he could ever have imagined.Joe knows that he is innocent and he has a short window of time to find out who murdered his wife and who is trying to set him up for it. Armed with his best friend Attorney Alex Denton, and a quest to find the truth, he finds himself in way over his head with danger around every corner. Every new lead sends Joe right into another dark secret that he had hoped would be forever buried. His wife was not the person he thought she was and now the people that lived in this secret world are upset that Joe is bothering the delicate balance.Someone wants Joe behind bars and they will stop at nothing, even murder, to make sure that happens.
