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The Judge

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Defend the enemy or lose everything.

Attorney Max Ringo fought her way back from drug addiction to reclaim her career—and the son she nearly lost. Now the past returns with an impossible demand.

Max’s former best friend, Judge Caroline Parker, has been arrested for murdering her secret lover, a decorated general deep in Huntsville, Alabama’s defense contracting world. Cornered and desperate, Caroline blackmails Max into defending her, dangling secrets that would bring them both down.

As the case unfolds, Max discovers that the murder is only one piece of a conspiracy stretching from Huntsville to the highest levels of government. Every witness has an agenda, every ally a price. And every step toward the truth puts Max and her son in greater danger.

With the courtroom closing in and corruption boiling beneath each revelation, Max must decide how far she’ll go for the woman she despises. Because winning may be the only way to save her son…and herself.

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Robert Bailey

Robert Bailey is the bestselling author of the McMurtrie and Drake Legal Thrillers series, which includes The Final Reckoning, The Last Trial, Between Black and White, and The Professor. The first two novels in the series were Beverly Hills Book Awards legal thriller of the year winners, and Between Black and White…

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