Escape and Betrayal is a disturbing insight into the course of a bitter contest in a domestic relations trial; the scheming design of the litigant whose cause was unsupportable, to undermine and demean the judge, releasing unfounded lurid tales to the sensationalistic eager media, despite the position of the judge in the case who was honorable and totally just. In the aftermath and the struggle of the judge, he faced a search for a new life; for self-realization and the belief in his quest for life's promise of love and truth, still haunted by the memory of the litigation. The world of hope beckoned with the vision of bright, new promise; then human frailty let it slip away.