The book opens with her covered in blood, standing on a deserted train platform with no recollection of how she got there. Why? She is dead. She is stuck in this place with distant relatives and people from her past, trying to help her adjust to her new surroundings. She learns that she has been selected to be a part of an elite group of lawyers whose job it is to prosecute and defend souls at the Final Judgment. Each soul she meets and each trial she witnesses brings her closer to remembering what exactly happened to her. This thought-provoking novel explores the practice of compassion, forgiveness, redemption all wrapped up in a page-turning mystery.