After young lawyer Mitchell McDeere exposed the law firm he worked for was a front for the Chicago mob, he and his family found themselves in the Federal Witness Protection Program. Now, a decade later, McDeere, his wife Abby and daughter Claire, begin their efforts to reclaim their lives, which proves to be an uphill battle.

Mitch must defend the son of a partner in his new firm against a murder charge; as Mitch begins working on the Sarah Holt case, he starts to understand why Kinross & Clark brought him on.