"Avery Keene, a brilliant young law clerk for the legendary Justice Howard Wynn, is doing her best to hold her life together?excelling in an arduous job with the court while also dealing with a troubled family. When the shocking news breaks that Justice Wynn?the cantankerous swing vote on many current high-profile cases?has slipped into a coma, Avery?s life turns upside down. She is immediately notified that Justice Wynn has left instructions for...

When a television judge ends up on the Supreme Court, romance and the fate of a presidential election take center stage in this comic political satire.

A hate crime involving the murder of a legal scholar who had made his career by penning controversial works places defense attorney Paul Madriani in a media spotlight that compromises his investigation into an elusive witness within the cloistered confines of the Supreme Court.

"Avery Keene is back, trying to get her feet on solid ground after unraveling a conspiracy that took down the President of the United States. But as the sparks of impeachment hearings and political skirmishes swirl around her, Avery is approached at a legal conference by Preston Davies, an unassuming young man and fellow law clerk to a federal judge in Idaho. Davies believes his boss, Judge Francesca Whitner, was being blackmailed in the days before...