When crime reporter Molly Cates?s father died more than twenty-five years ago, the case was ruled a suicide, and Molly?s efforts to prove otherwise led to nothing but anguish and the breakup of her family. But now new information has come her way and she reopens the investigation?and a rush of old wounds?with a vengeance. Soon the personal becomes dangerously political as Molly?s search for the truth leads her from the stately halls of Texas government to the mean streets of Austin?s down-and-out?and ultimately to a moral dilemma she never could have anticipated.