Call her naive or just a fool for love, but Julie Farnham never stopped believing in Jim Wingate's innocence even though the case against him was open and shut. He had been found with a smoking gun in his hand, kneeling beside the body of an older man... and he had run away virtually on the eve of his wedding to Julie. Now, five years later he's back -- still handsome, still professing his love for her -- and still insisting he had been framed. But before his first night home passes, a new killing in their small Connecticut town will put Julie under suspicion as well. Unless she tracks down the killer, Julie will lose Jim or her own freedom forever. But a twisted trail leads straight into her lover's past -- to a scandal, a secret, and a reason Julie may be the next to die.