When Broadway star Natalie Raines is found in her home in Closter, New Jersey, dying from a gunshot wound, her former husband, Gregg Aldrich, is the chief suspect. What no one knows is that only days before she was murdered, Natalie accidentally came face to face with the man who killed her former roommate, Jamie Evans. Two years later, career criminal Jimmy Easton comes forward to claim that Aldrich hired him to kill his wife, but that he turned the job down. Based on Easton's testimony, Gregg is charged with murder. Handling the case is Emily Wallace, an attractive widowed assistant prosecutor. As Aldrich's trial is making headlines, Emily experiences sentiments which defy all reason, and continue after his fate is decided by the jury. In the meantime, she does not realise that her own life is now at risk.