Guilt Remains

When a dying town is shocked by the brutal murder of its hometown hero, twelve strangers must set aside the routines of their ordinary lives to serve as jurors in the trial. At first, the jurors seem like ordinary citizens just struggling to get by and find their way in the world. As details about their lives emerge, however, their capacity for objective judgment becomes obscured. Can these law-abiding citizens bury the issues they're dealing with in their own lives in order to fairly determine the fate of the accused? Or, will their own doubts and insecurities prevent them from passing judgment? The darkness of human nature. Guilt and innocence. The hypocrisy of judgment. All of these themes collide in the lives of these ordinary people as they each seek to find the answer as to where the guilt remains.

Doug Rice is a sales data analyst and a freelance ghostwriter working in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of The Curiosity Manifesto, a treatise reflective of his passion for learning. Guilt Remains is his first novel.