Jea­nine is par­ty­ing like a rock star in Key West Flori­da. She is there with her boyfriend, BFF, and some oth­er friends. Not on­ly is she there to let loose dur­ing spring break, but she's al­so just had her 21st birth­day. Af­ter a night of heavy drink­ing, Jea­nine pass­es out, on­ly to wake to find her boyfriend and BFF get­ting it on in the bath­room. In the ul­ti­mate act of re­venge, she takes his beloved Ca­maro out for a spin. A joy ride that ends with hor­rif­ic re­sults. That is, un­til a chance en­counter with po­lice of­fi­cer, Pe­ter, changes her life for­ev­er.

Ni­na is a new at­tor­ney on the rise. Her his­to­ry is cloud­ed, and she fudged her re­sume to get a job as a para­le­gal. Her em­ploy­er was so im­pressed with her work that they paid for her law de­gree. Af­ter ten years of night school and bust­ing her butt, and rais­ing her 16-year-old-daugh­ter on her own, she's in a good place in her life. She's hap­py. Pe­ter seems to be the ul­ti­mate cop. He's ded­i­cat­ed to his job, has worked on task-forces, done un­der­cov­er work, and ap­pears to be fast-tracked for even big­ger and bet­ter things. Maybe he'll even be Chief of Po­lice one day. But there is a dark side to Pe­ter, some­thing he's hid­ing. And the per­fect life he's cre­at­ed with his new wife quick­ly van­ish­es when she be­comes the lat­est vic­tim of the Jump Killer, a se­r­i­al killer ter­ror­is­ing the women of South Flori­da.

It is now days be­fore the ex­e­cu­tion of Justin Har­ris, the man con­vict­ed of one mur­der and pre­sumed to be the no­to­ri­ous Jump Killer. Ni­na is as­signed to work with an in­no­cence-type project, and each per­son on the team is as­signed a case. How­ev­er, when a friend gets a case that hits a lit­tle to close to home, Ni­na de­cides, af­ter a lot of soul-search­ing, to swap cas­es with her. Ni­na is now work­ing the Jump Killer case. She knows that the man is in­no­cent. He is most def­i­nite­ly not the Jump Killer. Now she just needs to prove it, and she must re­turn to South Flori­da, a place filled with un­pleas­ant mem­o­ries and a se­cret she'd pre­fer not be ex­posed. Every­thing she has worked so hard for can be tak­en away from her in an in­stant. Re­gard­less of the dam­age it may do to her per­son­al life, her con­science will not al­low her to let an in­no­cent man die.

Ni­na meets up with Charles Bay­lor, the at­tor­ney rep­re­sent­ing Justin Har­ris, con­vict­ed Jump Killer. Char­lie doesn't want any help from Ni­na, con­vinced he can keep his client alive all on his own. Ni­na isn't so sure, and she won't give up pes­ter­ing him un­til he gives in and agrees to let her help him. And the more Ni­na points out lit­tle things that don't add up to Char­lie, the more he re­al­ly be­lieves in his clients' in­no­cence.

With just a few days left un­til the ex­e­cu­tion, and af­ter hit­ting brick wall af­ter brick wall, Char­lie and Ni­na know that there is some­one else out there that is just as de­ter­mined as they are to make this ex­e­cu­tion hap­pen as they are to stop­ping it. Can they pre­vent the ex­e­cu­tion of an in­no­cent man, or will the Jump Killer claim one more vic­tim? As with all Pat­ter­son books, the chap­ters are short, the pace is fast. You are not bogged down by in­for­ma­tion you don't need. You get what you're look­ing for-the sto­ry. And a good one at that. Pat­ter­son & Led­widge have in­tro­duced us to more won­der­ful char­ac­ters–giv­ing the read­er just a hint of who they are-and leave you yearn­ing to know more.