Miami criminal lawyer Jack Swyteck’s beautiful ex-girlfriend Jessie Merrillsold her life insurance benefit for a cash payment when she was diagnosedwith a deadly disease. Now, thanks toJack’s courtroom prowess, Jessie can keep the $1.5 million she received. But both Swyteck and those whoexpected to double their investment when Jessie died, it turns out,were dupes of a gorgeous scam artist who was never sick at all. And whenJessie’s corpse is discovered in Jack’sbathtub, he’s suddenly wanted for murder. Framed and desperate, he’s up against the police and a powerfulcriminal consortium willing to go toany lengths to retrieve their money.To save his freedom and his career,Jack must exhume the dark secretsof a buried past.
