As a Georgia senator's chief of staff, attorney Will Lee knows what it takes to run a successful political campaign. With his sights on his own senate run in two years' time, he heads to Delano, Georgia--and back to his family's law practice--hoping to establish a presence in his home state. But his first case, defending a white man of murdering a black woman, puts Will on shaky ground. And when his boss is struck down and Will decides to run for his vacant seat, he's catapulted into the spotlight--and becomes a target for the shadowy forces who will stop at nothing to keep him out of office...