Somebody mailed John Morrow twenty kilograms of pure heroin, known as China White in the trade. To the Narcotics Task Force, he looks like a big-time dealer. To the people who care about him, John is a college student struggling to put himself through school. Washington, DC criminal defense attorney. Mercy Johnson takes his case and Murphy's law takes she's kidnapped from the courtroom during John's trial, thieves steal the twenty kilos, her police officer nephew is shot by a drug dealer. Are her smarts, her love for her family and her dedication to justice enough to save her client, and her own life?