Defense attorney Mike Daley, ex-priest, ex-husband, ex-public defender, never expected to get a phone call from District Attorney Prentice Marshall Gates III, San Francisco's chief law enforcement officer and front-runner candidate for California attorney general. Friends they're not; Skipper Gates had led the charge to get Mike fired from his job as a partner in a prestigious law firm. But Gates needs Daley now, and needs him badly. He's just been...

Fate throws a curveball at the San Francisco ex-husband-and-wife legal team of Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez, when Mike picks up the phone and hears the voice of Leon Walker. Now, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist has been found dead in a dumpster on San Francisco's skid row. The new murder has been pinned on Walker, but he not only tells Mike he is innocent, he says he is a dying man.

Mike and Rosie tackle what may be their toughest case yet: proving the innocense of a mob lawyer convicted of murder. The situation is made worse by the fact that Mike's father, a San Francisco cop who was one of the first on the scene the night of the murder, may have been involved in a police cover-up.

Mike Daley and ex-wife Rosie Fernandez stare down old demons as they return to work at the San Francisco Public Defender's Office where they started their careers and their relationship twenty years earlier. Now as co-heads of the Felony Division, they spend more time running the office and supervising younger attorneys than trying cases. That changes quickly when Mike is compelled to represent Thomas Nguyen. The high school senior was arrested under...