Peter Kelly and Lily Madison regret choices they made in 1986 as impoverished college students when they first met outside a sperm bank and its adjacent fertility clinic. Years later, Pete's a software mogul and Lily's a successful clothing designer, and they happen across one another at an airport, where they see a news broadcast about a massacre at the California Academy of Higher Learning. Featured on the report is Josh, a survivor and dead ringer...

On the eve of wealthy philanthropist Cecil Wyatt's 80th birthday, all the money in the world won't bring back his grandson, William, who has been killed. As the family, police, and the media try to discover truth behind the young man's fate, all that's clear is that it involved foul play. After Kate Donovan tangles with William's half-brother, Mitchell, she finds herself cast in a shadow of guilt and mistrust. Now she must clear her name and claim...