On the eve of the unveiling of his latest dinosaur discovery, Dr. Wallace Darwyn is murdered by his religious associate, Dr. Frank Miller. Ruth Martinez, an up and rising attorney, is given the impossible task of defending a man caught red handed. With the help of the mysterious Jonathan Steel, Ruth must overcome her rival, Byran Nicholas in the courtoom while looking for the real murderer. And, in the process, she faces a deadly creature who truly lives out the principle that nature is "red in tooth and claw".