For more than twenty years, Sam Cayholl has been waiting to be executed for a cruel crime he committed long ago. Soon the sentence is supposed to be carried out. And then, in his desperate fight for life, his unexpected ally appears—his grandson, a young attorney from Chicago, Adam Hall. There’s still time—days, hours, minutes—to get the conviction overturned. But the “special people” have already started preparing the gas chamber; outside the prison walls, opponents of the death penalty are already rallying; and TV crews have strung cables and installed cameras hoping for sensational reports. Will Adam manage to help the man who ruined not only someone else’s life, but also the life of his own family? Can he find common ground with his grandfather—because between them isn’t just a tangle of lies, but also shameful family secrets? And most importantly, can the fledgling lawyer uncover Sam’s biggest secret? How far is he willing to go for that? Because saving his grandfather could put his own life at risk…