False witness
(Book)

He saw what you did. He knows who you are...AN ORDINARY LIFE...Leigh Collier has work hard to build what looks like a normal life. She's an up and coming defense attorney at a prestigious law firm in Atlanta, would do anything for her sixteen year old daughter Maddy, and is managing a to successfully co-parent through a pandemic after an amicable separation from her husband Walter. HIDES A DEVASTATING PAST...but Leigh's ordinary life masks a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, and ultimately destroyed by a brutal act of violence. BUT NOW THE PAST IS CATCHING UP...On a Sunday night at her daughter's school play, she gets a call from one of the firm's partners who wants Leigh to come on board to defend a wealthy man accused of multiple counts of rape. Though wary of the case, it becomes apparent she doesn't have much choice if she wants to keep her job. They're scheduled to go to trial in one week. When she meets the accused face to face, she realizes that's its no coincidence that he's specifically asked for her to represent him. She knows him. And he knows her. More to the point, he may know what happened over twenty years ago, and why Leigh has spent two decades avoiding her past. AND TIME IS RUNNING OUT. Suddenly she has a lot more to lose than this case. The only person that can help is her younger, estranged sister Callie--the last person Leigh would ever want to drag into this after all they'll been through. But with the life shattering truth in danger of being revealed, she has no choice. ,Provided by publisher.