num_pages: 440
description: AN ORDINARY LIFELeigh Coulton has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She has a good job as a defence attorney a daughter doing well in school and even her divorce is relatively civilised - her life is just as unremarkable as she'd always hoped it would be.HIDES A DEVASTATING PASTBut Leigh's ordinary life masks a childhood which was far from average... a childhood tarnished by secrets broken by betrayal and finally torn apart by a devastating act of violence.BUT NOW THE PAST IS CATCHING UPThen a case lands on her desk - defending a wealthy man accused of rape. It's the highest profile case she's ever been given - a case which could transform her career if she wins. But when she meets the accused she realises that it's no coincidence that he's chosen her as his attorney. She knows him. And he knows her. More to the point he knows what happened twenty years ago and why Leigh has spent two decades running.AND TIME IS RUNNING OUTIf she can't get him acquitted she'll lose much more than the case. The only person who can help her is her younger estranged sister Calli the last person Leigh would ever want to ask for help. But suddenly she has no choice...
language: English
title: False Witness
publisher: William Morrow