Defense attorney Nora Callahan takes on impossible cases in Boston, fueled by past failures and a burning need for justice. But her new client is beyond impossible: Eli Kane, a seventeen-year-old charged with murdering the heir to the powerful Lang Biotech empire, is selectively mute—rendered voiceless by a trauma he cannot explain. The evidence against him is flimsy, yet suspiciously solid, pointing to a frame job orchestrated by forces with limitless reach.

As Nora digs deeper, aided by her hacker ally and journalist sister, she uncovers whispers of Project Nightingale—illegal human trials hidden behind Lang Biotech's benevolent facade. Eli wasn't just in the wrong place; he was a victim, silenced by the very corporation now determined to bury him. Facing witness intimidation, deadly threats from a shadowy enforcer named Varga, and betrayal from those she trusted most, Nora must unravel a conspiracy that stretches from Boston's corridors of power to illicit off-shore labs before Lang's lethal 'risk mitigation' silences everyone permanently.