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396 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 28, 2023
Keera Duggan was an up-and-coming prosecutor until her romantic relationship with a colleague Miller Ambrose ended badly. Now she is forced to work in her family’s criminal defense law firm, which itself is struggling after her father’s repeated alcohol-induced misbehaviour. For Keera, who has always been an overachiever and a chess prodigy, this is a big comedown.
When wealthy businessman Vince LaRussa, who is arrested on the charge of murdering his wife, approached Duggan’s firm to represent him, Keera knows that this is the chance to get everything – career, family, business – back on track. But there are many challenges as well, not least of which being that the prosecutor handling the case for the state is Ambrose himself.
As Keera handles the defense side while navigating through some tricky leads, she realises that she is in a far more dangerous game than she had bargained for.
The story comes to us in the limited third person perspective of Keera and another key character, Frank Rossi, who is the lead detective on the LaRussa case.