Sensual, elegant Rachel Williams is appointed to the position of Presiding Judge of the Superior Court comes. WIth the appointment comes an invitation to join the inner circle of the powerful Los Angeles Athletic Club. But the dues are steep and even her lover, Stephen Kempner, can't help her when she becomes entangled in a web of sex, privilege, murder and drugs while she presides over the trial of her career. Soon she will be forced to make the one decision that will irrevocably change her life...or end it.