Dr. Jade Collins finds herself on death row after killing a man who’d been abusing one of her patients. Depression steals everything from Dr. Mark Brand—his medical license, his livelihood and his will to live. After a reunion with a powerful man he once knew, Mark is sent to San Quentin Prison to offer Jade a second chance at life, but one that comes at a price of its own.

Jade Stryker has never really known happiness, but she knows it when she finds it living in the Mexican highlands with the man she loves and their baby daughter. A phone call from a ghost from her past changes everything. She knows that it will be a difficult and dangerous task, one that may well force her to choose which hill she wants to die on.