Defense attorney Nora Callahan takes on impossible cases in Boston, fueled by past failures and a burning need for justice. But her new client is beyond impossible: Eli Kane, a seventeen-year-old charged with murdering the heir to the powerful Lang Biotech empire, is selectively mute-rendered voiceless by a trauma he cannot explain. The evidence against him is flimsy, yet suspiciously solid, pointing to a frame job orchestrated by forces with limitless reach.
As Nora digs deeper, aided by her hacker ally and journalist sister, she uncovers whispers of Project Nightingale-illegal human trials hidden behind Lang Biotech's benevolent facade. Eli wasn't just in the wrong place; he was a victim, silenced by the very corporation now determined to bury him. Facing witness intimidation, deadly threats from a shadowy enforcer named Varga, and betrayal from those she trusted most, Nora must unravel a conspiracy that stretches from Boston's corridors of power to illicit off-shore labs before Lang's lethal 'risk mitigation' silences everyone permanently.