Two months after the suspicious and much-publicized death of Adam Blaine's father, the court inquest into Benjamin Blaine's death casts suspicions on those closest to him, testing his ability to protect those closest to him. But the sternest test of all is Carla Pacelli—his late father's mistress and a woman to whom Adam finds himself increasingly drawn. The closer he gets to this beautiful the closer he also comes to revealing the secrets he's striven to conceal.