Daniel Knott, a bookkeeper in Paradise, Colorado, sees something he wishes he had never seen, and it involves his employer, the town's leading citizen Amos Burch. What he sees soon becomes the key to a court action, and Knott discovers that he is under terrible, unspeakable pressure to avoid telling the truth on the witness stand. This is a novel about moral courage, one courageous man's determination to do what is right, no matter how terrible the cost.