An eighteen-year-old girl and her boyfriend ease their way into her darkened house. They tiptoe down the hallway, stepping over the blood spatter of her parents’ murder scene, never noticing. When they discover the bodies and call the police an hour later, they are prime suspects in the killings, and they are eventually convicted. But they are innocent. They have been trapped in prison for twenty-five years. Until now. The newly formed Conviction Review Unit has the power to overturn wrongful convictions. Heading up the unit is Elke Lawrence, former prosecuting attorney, running from a dark and painful past. She is joined by Detective Iain Hudson, who only trusts physical evidence, and former defense attorney Frankie Hart, whose passion is freeing the innocent. But as the CRU begins to investigate the case, malice surfaces from those hell-bent on making sure some secrets stay buried. The unit must overcome every obstacle, every threat. They must uncover the truth.

The Conviction Review an investigative team that overturns convictions and frees the innocent. Elke Lawrence has never been happier in her job as the head of the Conviction Review Unit. But when her younger brother comes to her in fear for his life because he’s been selling drugs for her locked-up ex-husband, Elke is completely thrown. She has to save her brother, and she can’t allow him to suffer for her ex-husband’s sins. But she can hardly concentrate at work. The new case she’s picked out, a young man who’s accused of killing his girlfriend, doesn’t seem to want to unravel. Everyone else, including the other members of the CRU, think he’s actually guilty. Elke won’t give up on the case, though, and she won’t give up on her brother. Even if her holding on leads to gunshots on a cold winter night and blood in the snow.

After some recovery time for the Conviction Review Unit, Elke Lawrence is ready for a challenge. But she gets more than she bargained for with this new case, involving a man convicted of killing his wife sixteen years before. There’s no body. No murder weapon. No physical evidence at all except two small drops of blood in his kitchen. The DNA of the blood doesn’t match anyone involved in the case. There’s challenging, and then there’s impossible. Elke is beginning to think this case is the latter.