After a bad breakup and an emotional breakdown, Londoner Ellie Porter has her life back on track. She has a promising new job as a night lawyer at a popular tabloid (it's her responsibility to vet the stories before the issue goes to press) and a flat with a garden in an up-and-coming neighborhood. But she still can't dismiss distressing memories from her past, namely the accident that killed her father some two decades before (was she really to blame?). Ellie's mother provides little comfort; she's too busy obsessing over her appearance to listen to her daughter's laments. And even Ellie's dogged pursuit of a brown belt in karate can't distract her from the strangely familiar stranger who's tracking her every move.

Young, beautiful Ellie Porter--newly appointed "night lawyer" for the tabloid Chronicle--might seem to the casual observer a woman who has everything. But one by one, problems emerge to undermine her: the wayward young neighbor through whose walls Ellie hears things she'd rather not; the former lover whose reappearance stirs feelings she'd hoped were buried;the security expert who catches her on camera in an intimate moment and decides to keep watching. Worst of all, someone is stalking Ellie on the nighttime streets of London, dogging her footsteps and invading her home. But what does this menacing figure want? As her stalker's obsessive attention becomes more and more sinister, Ellie realizes that she is in real trouble,and this time the damage may be beyond all repair.

The Night Lawyer is a story of survival, and of the ways in which people can sometimes, even in the most unpromising circumstances, rebuild shattered lives.