»You killed two people», Beth said. «You're likely to spend the rest of your life in prison.» Susan looked up. Her eyes had a faint spark now. «It was worth it», she said. Beth Powell and Susan Wright were best friends — both from troubled families, their only happy times were the summers they spent together as children. Until fate intervened and separated them. It's twenty-nine years later when they meet again. Susan is a down-and-out who has shot two people in cold blood. Beth is the lawyer allocated to defend her. Yet their friendship still endures, even as the evidence against Susan mounts up — a friendship that must be stronger than the traumas of the past. Because for one of them, there can be no happy ending ...