The affluent community of Chestnut Hills is rocked when two savage rapes stir horrid memories of a similar, unsolved attack that lead to the victim's suicide ten years earlier.

When a routine traffic stop leads to the arrest of Sonny Marx, a wily conman with a trunk full of incriminating evidence, contentious brothers, Andrewand Ethan Rivers, square off in court. Andrew, the dogmatic prosecutor who will stop at nothing to cut his brother to shreds-Ethan, the prominent criminal defense attorney who will use every unscrupulous tactic to counter.

Before the trial begins, however, their father dies unexpectedly, uniting the brothers against their estranged and vindictive mother, who, along with her well-oiled attorney boyfriend, seeks control of his sizeable estate.

Nevertheless, the legal world grinds onward, and while Andrew links Sonny Marx's seedy life to a masochistic sex dungeon for the city's well-connected, Ethan faces off with reputed mob boss, Anthony Ricci, a vengeful father on the hunt for one of Ethan's renegade clients.

Yet, and unbeknownst to the brothers, the more the legal world grinds onward, the closer they come to unlocking a devastating secret-a secret one brother will endure, and one will not.