David Crosby’s life was defined by the one case he lost: the defense of Lindell Trent, an innocent girl he could not save from a wrongful conviction in a small Kansas town. Years later, a message in a bottle found in the South Pacific provides a single, desperate clue to her whereabouts, but finding her requires a fortune Crosby does not possess. To fund his global quest, Crosby must win the trial of the century, defending the wealthy socialite Archibald Chalmers in a baffling Chicago murder case.
Caught in a “tangle of tangles,” the young attorney must outmaneuver a ruthless prosecutor and a web of perjury involving facial doubles and mysterious abductions. As the legal battle reaches its peak, the truth behind the crime is found hidden within a two-hundred-year-old Chinese safe and a blood-feud stretching back to the era of the notorious Captain Kidd. In this high-stakes race against time, Crosby must untangle an “amazing web” of fate to find redemption and return to the golden wheat fields of his past.