When Amber Frey (Moloney, TV's The West Wing) meets Scott Peterson (Anderson, Greed, Kalamazoo?), she thinks that she has finally met the man of her dreams. He's single, handsome, smart, kind, considerate and claims to be ready to settle down. But when she begins to suspect that something is amiss with Scott's story, she accepts an investigator friend's offer to check him out. She then discovers that everything that he's told her is a lie, and that the lives of his real wife and child may be in jeopardy. Frey immediately calls the police and offers her help. In the process, her life is changed forever and the pressure builds as she continues to take risks for justice. This is the true story of how Frey helped the authorities to build a case to convict Peterson of murdering his wife.