The Final Judgment

Long estranged from her blue-blooded New England family attorney Caroline Masters is summoned home to defend her niece against charges of murder. Police found 22-year-old Brett Allen blood-splattered and incoherent near the scene of the crime; the weapon covered with her fingerprints. Caroline has doubts of her own about Bretts innocence. But as the sensational trial heats up shell find disturbing inconsistencies in the testimony of the prosecutions star witness and find herself facing some of the toughest challenges of her life and career--from trusting her former lover state prosecutor Jackson Watts to risking the federal judgeship shes worked her whole life for to exposing a dark family secret that could save her niece or destroy them both . . .