Stella Cataloni, rising star of the Dallas DA's Office, has everything - an unbeaten court record, good looks, TV fame for her latest successful case, and her boss's backing to help her step one day into his shoes. And then a 16-year-old nightmare is resurrected, branding her murderer and arsonist.Stella has paid a price for her success - in the enmity of her ex-husband Brad, the rivalry of her colleagues, the estrangement of her adored brother Mario and, above all, the mental and physical scars of the unsolved fire which destroyed her parents and almost herself . . .