After exposing her husband's dirty cop ring and setting his drug kingpin brother up to go to prison, Tiphani Fuller has been promoted to circuit court judge of Baltimore City. There's only one problem: in the midst of all her scheming, her heart got tangled up in the clutches of notorious gangster Scar Johnson and now he's sitting across her in a court of law. When she decides to tamper with the evidence in his case to set him free, they begin an illicit affair that sets the underworld of Baltimore on fire.