Juror no. 3

Ruby Bozarth, a newcomer to Rosedale, Mississippi, is also fresh to the Mississippi Bar - and to the docket of Circuit Judge Baylor, who taps Ruby as defense counsel in a racially charged felony.

The murder of a woman from one of the town's oldest families has Rosedale's upper crust howling for blood, and the prosecutor is counting on Ruby's inexperience to help him deliver a swift conviction.

Ruby's client is a college football star who has returned home after a career-ending injury, and she is determined to build a defense that will stick.

As news breaks of a second murder, Ruby's ex-fiancé, Lee Greene, shows up on her doorstep - a Southern gentleman in need of a saviour.

As lurid, intertwining investigations unfold, no one in Rosedale can be trusted, especially the twelve men and women impaneled on the jury.

They may be hiding the biggest secret of all.