Assistant D.A. Alexa Hamilton has just been handed the kind of case that makes careers: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Sifting through mountains of forensic evidence Alexa relentlessly builds her case and prepares for a high-stakes trial . . . until threatening letters throw her private life into turmoil.

The letters are addressed to Alexa's beautiful 17-year-old daughter Savannah who Alexa has raised alone since her painful divorce years before. Alexa is certain that Quentin is behind the letters - and that they are too dangerous to ignore. Suddenly Alexa must make the toughest choice of all - and send her daughter back to the very place that Alexa swore she would never return: to her ex-husband's world of southern tradition long memories and the antebellum charm of Charleston.

While Alexa's trial builds to a climax in New York her daughter is settling into southern life discovering a part of her family history she's never known. As a family's wounds are exposed and the healing begins Alexa and Savannah after a season in different worlds will come together again - strengthened by the trials they have faced changed by the mysteries they have unraveled armed with miracles that are uniquely their own.