When a CEO sues her company for discrimination, her attorney taps Chris Jacobs for the legal team. For Chris, the case resurrects painful memories of prior heroics and unravels restraints binding a tightly controlled and long-denied secret—a secret that turns his wife, Alice, against him.

Power and greed rage in the courtroom while the hatred Chris fights devastates his friends and family. Tepid Tea spills tears and skips heartbeats telling a tale of self-destruction and survival, of desire and intimacy and love.[