Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt

Had Mason Chase gone to sleep that night he might be dead. The fact that he didn’t might make him wish he were dead.

With his family gruesomely murdered around him in their comfortable suburban home, he is arrested, charged and convicted of a crime he claims he did not commit. In fact there is evidence – strong evidence– to suggest that Mason’s claims of innocence are in fact true. But a Texas jury decides against him, finding him guilty and sentences him to death by lethal injection.

For close to a decade and a half, Mason sits on Texas death row while Rob Gilmore, his lawyer, and others work to get him set free. At times, mason comes within hours of his death. Not until Rob is killed in a traffic accident does the lawyer’s wife discover Rob’s secret – a secret that will aide in releasing Mason Chase of incarceration and freeing him from the looming death sentence that crowds him like an angry shadow.