Seventeen years ago, Catherine DeMarco spent one hot July night where she shouldn't have been, doing something she shouldn't have been doing. This was a fatal mistake. Now Jimmy Taggart is sitting on death row, and only one person believes he is innocent. Sergeant Samantha Casey touches a button unearthed at a construction site and suddenly sees the murder taking place, hears the name of the killer repeated in her head. It's not Jimmy Taggart's. Sam enlists the aid of Paul Goddard, the detective who had worked on the most brutal crime in Chasen Heights' history. They find the DeMarcos are less than co--"operative. What secrets about catherine's life are they trying to hide?
Sam investigates the discovery of the body of a supposedly AWOL Korean War soldier encased in a concrete pillar.