Top cardiac surgeon Fallon Hayes shocks everyone by refusing to operate on dying Tessa Rutledge. Public fury erupts, branding her cruel and unethical. But Fallon hides a devastating twenty-year secret. The patient’s mother Joanne once sold little Fallon for only five hundred dollars to marry into wealth. As evidence surfaces, a buried crime, broken mother-daughter bond and hidden truth begin to unravel. Will Fallon’s past finally be revealed, and what choice will she make?