Lying in Vengeance #872505

A man with a dark secret finds himself the victim of blackmail - and he can see no way out short of confessing to murder.

Peter Robertson, 33, once fought a man on a remote forested road and left him to die. Six months later, he served on the jury that freed a wrongfully accused man—and let his own secret slip to a beautiful but manipulative fellow juror, Christine Nielsen.

Two months later, Christine wakes him in the middle of the night with a threat: kill Kyle, the man who stalks and abuses her, or have his own murderous past exposed.

Peter pretends to go along as he seeks another, less violent solution, and his best friend Frankie threatens to expose the conspiracy to the police. But Kyle makes his move, breaking into her house in the middle of the night and then later kidnapping her at gunpoint. Peter's daring rescue gives him the opportunity to fulfill her request—and he walks away, consequences be damned.

The next morning, Kyle turns up dead, and the police arrest Frankie, of all people.

Peter knows his friend is innocent, but can he prove it without directing the finger of blame at himself—for both murders?