Eddie Jewell has spent the last three years in a women’s federal prison for a crime she did not commit. The life she remembers passes before her ad nauseam. The walls talk back to her; the guards refuse her complaints, and her tears have dried up in barren deserts of emotion. She is holding onto a secret full of contradiction: guilt and innocence both occupy the latch keeping it safe. FBI Special Agent Randal Hicks keeps picking at the lock. Rogue boyfriend, Ethan Cross, is desperate to steal what’s inside. A criminal enterprise run by Sid Marks will kill for it. Eddie seizes an opportunity to run away with her secret after receiving a one-in-a-million chance brought to her by US Marshal James Belk of the WITSEC division. Escape seems impossible, except for a ninety-year-old ex-police woman, Lizzy Watts. Exposing her secret could get her killed. Keeping it will get others killed.