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"Serious issue of the death penalty is prominent in this compelling romance."
Reviewed by Lenore Howard
Courtesy Old Book Barn Gazette
Posted July 14, 2003
Val Covington thinks she's happy working as a litigator in
a prestigious Baltimore law firm until an unexpected
windfall allows her to start her own practice, where she
can choose her own cases and causes. While looking for
office space, she meets Rob Smith, and soon the two
become much Read more...
"powerful legal thriller"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted July 25, 2003
In Baltimore, a close friend offers attorney Val Covington
an opportunity to open her own practice that would include
office space in a former church owned by Rob Smith. Val
leaps at the chance and offers a job to her sometime
paralegal assistant at her old firm. Kendra Read more...
From the bestselling author Mary Jo Putney comes an
emotionally charged story of a man and a woman brought
together by a passion for justice, a hunger to change, and
a ... Twist of Fate
SummaryCorporate law has given Val Covington high profile
success—and no time for a life. Recklessly, she walks
away from her uptown job and starts her own practice,
determined to do work that matters. Renting a remodeled
church gives her an added bonus in the form of her
landlord. Rob Smith is the kind of guy Val is always
attracted to: mysterious, handsome and haunted. Which
means, based on her track record, that he is also a loser;
but this time, she's smart enough to avoid involvement
with the wrong man.
Then Val's assistant makes a desperate plea for help in
saving her one-time lover from being executed for a crime
he didn't' commit. Val agrees to try, but success seems
impossible. Then Rob, who has private reasons for wanting
to work with Val, offers his formidable investigative
skills in the quest of justice. Working against the clock,
Rob and Val discover irresistible passion as well a s long
hidden secrets. But can two very different people change
enough to build a life together?
Perhaps they can, when fate takes a hand...
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