In South Lake Tahoe, Nina Reilly is known for taking on the underdog cases. Her latest case begins when she is called away from a personal visit to her investigator Paul Van Wagoner's hotel room to meet with a desperate new client at her office. Nina helps her client, "Jessie Potter," devise a plan to collect her Nevada jackpot winnings while keeping her true identity a secret. But for Nina, what begins as a fight for an underdog in federal court escalates into something very different and far more dangerous.