Description: Introducing rising star, black criminal defense attorney Carol Ann Gibson -- in a highly charged new series by a writer who received raves everywhere and a Lambda Award nomination for her most recent mystery, Night Songs.

A partner in her high-priced law firm and shining light in the D.C. legal firmament, Carol Ann Gibson finds her star rising too fast for her own conscience. When she has an innocent client, she almost blows the case using the same cynical tactics that have resulted in some of her biggest victories when defending the guilty.

Meanwhile, her husband Alain, a high-powered corporate lawyer, is waging his own battle with his principles. After a meeting with the most unscrupulous of his clients, he resigns. A few days later he ends up dead on a D.C. sidewalk.

As a devastated Carol Ann searches to find out why -- from the nation's capital to the backwater swamps of Louisiana -- the secrets she discovers about Al's death and about herself terrify and thrill her even as they put her life at risk. The first black female criminal defense attorney in mystery fiction, Carol Ann Gibson is a marvelous creation: an ex-Peace Corps volunteer who realizes that the law and justice aren't always the same, who likes to win but is smart enough to know there is a price -- and is determined to not let that price be her own humanity.

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