When elite Chicago defense attorney Hank Palmer returns to his small Indiana hometown for his mother's funeral, he expects a brief, painful weekend dodging his estranged family. Instead, his cold, proud father—Judge Joseph Palmer—is arrested for a fatal hit-and-run. Facing a corrupt prosecutor determined to destroy the family legacy, Hank is forced to take the lead on his father's defense. To win a case stacked against them, Hank teams up with Y/N, a brilliant local investigative journalist and the high school sweetheart he abruptly abandoned twenty years ago. As they dig into the town's secretive legal system, their buried romantic connection flares back to life, stripping away Hank’s arrogant, fast-talking armor to reveal a raw vulnerability reserved only for Y/N. Together, they uncover a dangerous conspiracy: the hit-and-run victim wasn't killed by accident. He held evidence from the night of the tragic car accident that fractured Hank’s family decades ago—evidence proving Hank wasn't actually at fault. Trapped in a web of family secrets, town corruption, and a deteriorating father's pride, Hank and Y/N must risk everything to expose the truth before a hidden killer silences them forever.
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