Returning home after nine years in prison for trying to kill the man who ran down her little boy, Alice Kessler connects with ex-Manhattan prosecutor and recovering alcoholic Colin McGinty, who has inherited his artist grandfather's Washington home, and tries to rebuild her relationship with her surviving son but finds herself struggling with the political corruption of the man she nearly murdered, who has become mayor, is paralyzed, and has taken revenge on her in a very painful way.
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