Top lawyer Chase Hale and his wife Janine Wynne were once loving partners working side by side at the same law firm, until a fire in their wedding home exposed a cruel truth: Janine had gotten her enemy Seth Lane released from prison and was protecting him. Seth deliberately injured Mrs. Hale, framed Yuri Hale for imprisonment, and pushed Chase Hale down a staircase, causing him to have one lung removed. Janine Wynne was blinded by her obsession.