"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...

A young, newly elected President and his nominee for Supreme Court Chief Justice are put into a political and moral hot seat when a late-term abortion case appears on the docket during the confirmation process.

Traveling to Hainan Island on the South China Sea, American attorney Yi Jichun uncovers the Hainan Net--an international organization that targets global shipping channels in its quest for world power. But Yi loses ground when Sarah, an esteemed fellow judge, discovers his true identity as a foreign spy--and as the American military organizes a stealth assault in full cooperation with China's government, Yi must reconcile the laws governing the land...

In the spring of 1896, after thirty years spent dispensing justice in Montana, Judge Harlan Blackthorne expires, leaving Deputy U.S. Marshal Page Murdock, his most steadfast officer, to escort his remains across the continent by rail. The long journey is interrupted from time to time by station stops for the public to pay its respects, and for various marching bands to serenade the departed with his favorite ballad, "After the Ball." This gives Murdock...