Getting his client off death row could save his career… or make him the next victim.Daniel Pike would rather fight for justice than follow the rules. His unique ability to "connect the dots," to observe what others do not, has made him the most notorious criminal lawyer in St. Petersburg. But when his courtroom career goes up in smoke, he fears his lifelong purpose is a lost cause. A mysterious job offer from a secretive boss gives him a second chance but lands him...

A billion-dollar inheritance. A suspicious reappearance. Can Dan dig up the secrets of the past before he's buried six feet under?Attorney Daniel Pike's flashy courtroom antics have earned him plenty of enemies—but also freed many innocent people. When he learns that the same crooked cop who got his father locked up for life is testifying in a contested-identity suit, Dan takes the case. But it won't be easy to prove his client is the long-lost heir to an immense e...

George Earle returns from college to his Oklahoma birthplace and finds it drastically altered. The Dust Bowl and the Depression have transformed the bucolic farm town into a desolate wasteland where few are healthy, happy, or employed. A chance encounter with Pretty Boy Floyd lands him in jail with a melancholy literary agent named Hart. They're given one chance to avoid execution by accepting an unlikely task: finding local powerbroker Doc Bennett's wayward daughter. They head east and me...

The court of public opinion found her guilty. But one attorney resolved to change the verdict…Attorney Daniel Pike knows the dire consequences of crossing the government. So when rising political star Camila Perez faces charges in a gruesome quadruple homicide, his instincts sense a frame by powerful rivals. But Dan and the Last Chance Lawyers may have a hopeless case when the police discover damning evidence scrawled at the crime scene in blood...Sorting through incriminat...

A struggling lawyer. A bitter custody battle. A deadly fire. This case could cost Kenzi her career—and her life.Kenzi Rivera is furious. Passed over for promotion at her own father's firm, the talented divorce lawyer is tired of fighting chauvinism every single day. When a desperate scientist begs for help getting her daughter back, Kenzi can't resist… even though this client is involved in Hexitel, a group she calls her religion but others call a cult.Kenz...

Getting his client off death row could save his career… or make him the next victim.After his courtroom career goes up in smoke, Daniel Pike receives a mysterious job offer from a secretive boss offering him a lifeline—a one-time opportunity to join The Last Chance Lawyers, a group with mysterious origins and funding. He's offered a generous salary with the condition that he accepts the cases assigned to him. He's told all the cases will be for deserving clients, p...

If he loses this case, the consequence is death…Ever since his father's wrongful incarceration, defense lawyer Daniel Pike has defended the innocent at any cost. But he's stunned when his archrival DA is found shot dead and brutally crucified. And after Pike himself lands in jail for the crime, he smells a terrifying setup.Fearing he'll suffer the same fate as his parent, the determined attorney uncovers evidence that the DA was involved with a sinister sex...

He writes gunfights and ticking time bombs. But when he's kidnapped and forced to plan a real-world crime, every plot twist will be explosive…Dylan Taggart channels his demons through the keyboard. Knocked around by a father who believed weakness was failure, the bestselling suspense author grabs a measure of peace in his gorgeous girlfriend's arms. But he sees fiction come horrifyingly to life when masked fanatics break in demanding he put his brilliant mind to wo...

If he loses this case, the verdict is death…Since his debut in The Last Chance Lawyer, Daniel Pike has used every trick he knows to defend the innocent—at any cost. These three novels recount his final showdown against his longtime nemesis, corporate CEO (and ruthless criminal) Conrad Sweeney.In Twisted Justice, Daniel Pike is stunned when the DA is found shot dead and brutally crucified. After Pike himself lands in jail for the crime, he ...

This is a collection of three short stories involving lawyer Ben Kincaid and his friends and colleagues.YULETIDE JUSTICEIn this short story, Ben Kincaid solves a Christmas mystery with his legal assistant, Christina McCall. Relations with Clyde Burris, the owner of the pawnshop next to Ben's law office, have always been frosty, but that doesn't stop Burris from asking Ben to investigate a Christmas Eve theft that turns out to have life-or-death ramifications. Ben soon reali...

In the ruins of North America, the Laws and Ways of the Sentinel control everyone and everything. The Sentinel's rule is enforced by The Black Sentry, his ominous ever-present police force. Every aspect of the villagers' lives is dictated by the Sentinel's orderly inescapable plan--including the Winnowing, the armed combat each boy is required to undergo on his sixteenth birthday.Daman Adkins is worried about his impending Winnowing, but he's even more troubled by everyone's blind ...

In this story, William Bernhardt sends his crusading attorney Kenzi Rivera (Splitsville) to solve the mystery of a missing family heirloom—with several lives hanging in the balance. So pull up a chair by the Christmas tree, put on your holiday music, grab a glass of eggnog, and get the Christmas spirit with Kenzi Rivera.