Complication

Marcus Hale is on death row for murdering the woman he loved. He did not kill her. But he was there.

Nora Whitfield has lost five men to the needle. She is done. Then a call comes from the town she swore never to return to, and she takes one last case, in the valley where her mother died thirty-two years ago of a word the hospital used instead of the truth.

The whole town knows Marcus is guilty. The shirt. The DNA. The time of death that puts him at the scene. But the time was bought, and the woman who bought it is still sitting in the third row, holding the town's hand, and has been all along.

What no one knows is that the dead nurse spent three years building a file that could unmake the county, and the file is missing, and the only lawyer who can find it is the one the dead woman chose before she died, in a letter mailed the day before she was killed, to a woman she had never met.

Complication is a legal thriller about a town that decided an innocent man was cheaper than its own secret, and the paper that remembers what the town agreed to forget.