Sarah cancels the anniversary trip to the lake house, and Adam decides to go alone.

Kelly arrives at the lake house with baked goods and she and Adam sleep together.

Adam wakes to a car door slamming, finds Kelly seemingly asleep, and drives home to Sarah.

Sarah tells Adam she wants a baby when he returns home and they have sex.

The cleaning lady discovers Kelly's body at the lake house and contacts police.

Sheriff Stevens and Deputy Hudson arrest Adam at his home for Kelly Summers's murder.

Sarah arrives at the sheriff's station and announces she will serve as Adam's defense lawyer.

Sheriff Stevens reveals Kelly was stabbed 37 times and three separate DNA sets were found on her body.

Scott Summers attacks Adam in the interrogation room, sending Adam to the hospital.

Sarah discovers a threatening photo of Adam and Kelly with the note 'END IT OR I WILL' hidden at the crime scene.

Anne reveals that Kelly Summers is actually Jenna Way, whose previous husband was murdered and whose case officer was Scott Summers.

Adam pleads not guilty at his formal hearing and is placed under house arrest at the lake house.

Adam breaks house arrest, storms Sarah's law firm, accuses Anne, and publicly identifies Bob as Greg Miller's brother.

Adam is found guilty of double homicide and sentenced to death.

Sarah visits Adam on his execution day, and her final monologue reveals she killed Kelly and framed Adam for murder.

The story begins when Sarah Morgan backs out of a tenth-anniversary trip so her husband Adam can secretly meet his mistress, Kelly Summers, at their lake house. Kelly is found stabbed to death the next morning and Adam is arrested, prompting Sarah to step forward as his defense attorney despite his infidelity. Throughout the case, red herrings multiply and key evidence — including three DNA sets and a threatening note — keeps the investigation murky while Sarah appears to fight tirelessly for Adam's acquittal. Adam is ultimately convicted of double homicide and sentenced to death, with the trial hinging on evidence that has been quietly shaped against him. Only on his execution day does Sarah's final internal monologue deliver the devastating truth: she killed Kelly herself and has been framing Adam from the very beginning.

The headline events of a murder, a false defense, and a deadly betrayal.

The Prologue opens with the central question of whether an unnamed man killed an unnamed woman.

Adam describes his marriage as a one-woman show in which he is merely an extra.

Kelly asks Adam if he will ever leave Sarah, and he comforts her when she cries.

Sarah invites Anne out for drinks after work, unknowingly establishing her alibi for that evening.

Adam discovers threatening texts from Scott and a message from Jesse saying 'I'm sorry' on Kelly's phone.

Sarah defends a senator on rape charges in court while Adam is simultaneously being arrested.

Sarah feigns ignorance and pretends not to recognize Kelly Summers's name when the sheriff first mentions it.

Adam calls his mother Eleanor from jail after Sarah fails to answer his phone call.

Eleanor visits Adam in jail and blames Sarah's career ambitions for driving him to the affair.

Eleanor tells Sarah over dinner that Adam would not have been unfaithful if Sarah had fulfilled her wifely duties.

Sarah visits Seth's Coffee and learns from a coworker that a customer named Jesse Hook had an obsessive interest in Kelly.

Adam's literary agent calls him at the lake house and pressures him to write a tell-all book about the case.

Sarah asks Matthew to obtain DNA samples from key suspects without their consent, knowing the results will not be admissible.

Adam escapes the sheriff's station through a door that Scott Summers accidentally left cracked open.

Sarah exits Adam's execution and joins Bob in his car, where their young daughter Summer is waiting.

Behind the headline events of Adam's arrest and trial lies a web of secondary moments that reveal the true complexity of the case. From the Prologue's opening question to small but telling interactions between Adam, Sarah, Eleanor, and Anne, these scenes expose the cracks in the Morgan marriage and the layers of self-interest driving every character involved. Supporting figures — Eleanor, Jesse Hook, Scott Summers, and Adam's literary agent — each contribute their own agendas and deceptions that alternately muddy and advance the investigation. As the trial approaches, Sarah crosses ethical lines to pursue unauthorized DNA evidence while Adam makes reckless decisions that deepen his legal peril. The final image of Sarah walking out of Adam's execution to rejoin Bob and their waiting daughter ties together all the hidden threads that ran beneath the surface of the main plot.

The hidden moments, false leads, and secondary players that shaped the case.

Sarah and Anne complain about a difficult law firm colleague called 'Mr. Miller,' unaware of his secret connection to Kelly.

Matthew predicts that Adam wants a child primarily because his writing career has completely stalled.

Sarah watches Adam's breakdown through the one-way mirror and wonders whether he could be capable of violence.

Adam recalls in a flashback that Kelly revealed her true name was Jenna Way and that she once escaped murder charges.

Sarah asks Sheriff Stevens at the crime scene to test the scotch decanter specifically for Rohypnol.

Sarah informs Adam in the interrogation room that Kelly was pregnant with his child and that he now faces the death penalty.

Scott visits Adam and claims Kelly's black eye was an accident, suggesting she may have fabricated her abuse claims.

Rebecca, posing as a reporter, offers Adam a private investigation into Kelly's past in exchange for money and an interview.

Adam compares the handwriting on a note Sarah left with the threatening note from the lake house and realizes they match.

Anne admits at Sarah's law firm that she sent the threatening photo to Adam as a warning, not a death threat.

Sarah snaps at Eleanor outside the interrogation room, calling Adam a liar, a cheater, and possibly a murderer.

Bob visits Sarah at work and hints, after being cleared of suspicion, that the two of them remain on the same team.

Adam's dying thoughts in the execution chamber reveal he finally understands that Sarah controlled and framed him.

Sarah's final monologue reveals the third DNA set belonged to Sheriff Stevens, explaining his deliberately botched investigation.

Sarah reveals she killed her own mother by secretly injecting additional heroin doses to make the death appear a suicide.

Beneath the surface of the murder investigation runs a series of pivotal turning points that gradually expose how thoroughly Sarah has deceived everyone around her. Early scenes — a colleague dismissed as Mr. Miller, a friend's cynical prediction about Adam's motives — quietly plant seeds of the larger conspiracy without the reader yet understanding their significance. As the investigation unfolds, each revelation reframes what came before: Kelly's true identity as Jenna Way, the matched handwriting on the threatening note, and Anne's dramatic confession all shift suspicion in new directions while Sarah masterfully redirects attention. Bob's cryptic remark that he and Sarah are on the same team hints at their deeper alliance before the full picture emerges. Adam's dying realization that Sarah controlled every aspect of his life brings the emotional arc to its close, while Sarah's final disclosures — that the third DNA set belonged to Sheriff Stevens and that she once killed her own mother — reveal the full, chilling depth of her capacity for calculated violence.

The discoveries, confessions, and reversals that expose the full truth of the conspiracy.