Victoria Justice has never really gotten over a near drowning in high school at the hands of a bully. But her career as court stenographer under the mentorship of the county's first African American superior court judge has helped her forget. Until her old nemesis appears on the court docket, and Victoria's carefully crafted world implodes. Evidence goes missing, a potential mistrial abounds and the judge winds up drowned in the courthouse bathroom. Then the deputy attorney general hangs himself . . . but was it really suicide? Plagued with guilt for failing to protect her mentor, Victoria teams up with Ashton North, the handsome state trooper accused of mishandling trial evidence, and starts to untangle the conspiracy surrounding the case. Then Victoria realizes her transcript of the proceedings unlocks everyone's secrets . . . including the murderer's. Can she suppress her feats long enough to crack the code and avoid the cross-hairs of a killer?
