Brooke Sullivan is a nurse practitioner starting a new chapter at a men’s maximum-security prison, a facility defined by rigid protocols and the heavy, constant sound of slamming cell doors. For Brooke, the job is a professional necessity but a personal gamble. The prison houses Shane Nelson, a man who was once her high school sweetheart and the town’s golden boy, but who now serves a life sentence for a series of brutal murders. The tension of her arrival is rooted in a singular, uncomfortable truth: it was Brooke’s own testimony that provided the final nail in Shane’s legal coffin.

As Brooke settles into the clinical environment of the infirmary, she is forced to navigate the blurred lines between her professional duty and her traumatic history. Shane maintains his innocence with a quie...

Brooke Sullivan is a nurse practitioner starting a new chapter at a men’s maximum-security prison, a facility defined by rigid protocols and the heavy, constant sound of slamming cell doors. For Brooke, the job is a professional necessity but a personal gamble. The prison houses Shane Nelson, a man who was once her high school sweetheart and the town’s golden boy, but who now serves a life sentence for a series of brutal murders. The tension of her arrival is rooted in a singular, uncomfortable truth: it was Brooke’s own testimony that provided the final nail in Shane’s legal coffin.

As Brooke settles into the clinical environment of the infirmary, she is forced to navigate the blurred lines between her professional duty and her traumatic history. Shane maintains his innocence with a quie...