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When Boady Sanden first receives the case of Elijah Matthews, he’s certain there’s not much he can do. Elijah, who believes himself to be a prophet, has been locked up in a psychiatric hospital for the past four years, convicted of brutally murdering the pastor of a megachurch. But as a law professor working for the Innocence Project, Boady agrees to look into Elijah’s file. When he does, he is alarmed to find threads that lead back to the death of his colleague and friend, Ben Pruitt, a man shot to death four years earlier in Boady’s own home.

Defense attorney Brad Madison likes to call the shots. Normally, he gets to choose his clients. Not this time. When Walter Powell is accused of killing his ex-girlfriend, property mogul Rubin Ashby asks Brad to defend him. But it's not a request; it's an order. Brad loathes Ashby; his mother lost a fortune in one of Ashby's failed property schemes. He's forced to make a deal: clear Powell's name and his mother's loss will be repaid.

Award-winning author Michael Pickford has brought us a delightful new series about a teen lawyer with Holmes-like powers of observation. Samuel Hickson moves from Chicago to Tennessee to attend college. He is seeking a new roommate because he can’t bear to live another week with a bunch of rowdy party animals. Samuel’s neighbor introduces him to a strange young man named Zeblon Jack. Zeblon is a child prodigy who by the age of eighteen had completed law school and passed the bar. He is also a loose cannon with no qualms about breaking the law to bring out the truth. On their first ...

A real estate lease agreement is one of the biggest financial obligations of any company. The tenant must review the lease to make sure it is sound from both business and legal perspectives. Written in a conversational style for the non-lawyer business executive, Tenant Leasing 101 offers companies the essential strategies and tips to help simplify the negotiation of their next lease.

The Aliens are Here! ...and they want US to breed. Well, some of us! Damian is in over his head. He's unemployed and his new girlfriend is an alien. His new lover, Vanessa, is pretty understanding, fortunately! The alien spaceship that has been orbiting the Earth has also selected him for their breeding program! The world doesn't know what they're here for, but they soon will. Every woman on the planet has been infected with a virus, making them HOT, willing, and EAGER to please the lucky few men who hold a specific genetic marker! Damian will soon face the alien queen! Will he be ...

Welcome to your ticket to success, "The Property Management Playbook". Grab your tickets to the strong, reliable universe of property rental business orbited by wisdom and power-packed strategies. Cast off your doubts and sail through even the stormiest investment waves thanks to this exceptional eBook. "The Property Management Playbook" encapsulates a meticulous walkthrough from understanding the foundations of the rental property business to devising your personal framework of victory. It is a complete cycle, starting with choosing the perfect location, deciphering market trends, and ...

Arriving in Little Havana in Miami, Cole creates a list of potential victims while Warren tracks down an old confidential informant. Desperate to reach a reclusive financier, Cole then makes an unusual friend, who leads her on a wild-goose chase through Miami. All the while, news is breaking around the world that implicates Cole and Warren in the killings, and a mysterious pair has followed them to Miami.

A teenage girl is boldly kidnapped from her school, minutes after her mother dropped her off. While a frenzied search begins, bringing together the entire police force of the city that never sleeps, for Detectives Baxter and Holt, this isn’t a crime like any other - it is personal. Detective Holt is faced with an inconceivable decision: Sacrifice everything he holds sacred or jeopardize the life of an innocent girl. But the man holding all the cards in this game of life and death isn’t willing to negotiate; he’s only willing to kill.

Teen pop star Brittany Crutcher is found dead in small-town Tennessee. For attorney Bocephus Haynes, it’s just another night in Pulaski. Bo swore off criminal work after his last case, but the beloved singer’s murder demands answers. The prime suspect is local high school football hero and the victim’s boyfriend, Odell Champagne. However, this fallen athlete is one of Bo’s son’s best friends. Bo knows this young man and does not believe him capable of the crime. When Odell is charged with murder, Bo reluctantly takes the case, sparking outrage throughout the town.

Though shalt covet. “Pride Horizon church has been my family's place of worship for as long as I can remember. My church leaders have always taught me to practice the morals of a God-fearing man. Then Pastor James insists I see him privately in his office after church and explains he has a new teaching for me now that I'm eighteen--a rite of passage that will show my devotion to my leaders, to the church, and to the Lord. A rite of passage all the men of Pride Horizon have gone through before me. Pastor leads the way, by taking off both sets of his shirts and hanging them on the rack ...

Jeremy Dunston, a wealthy and sophisticated 66 year old widowed Canadian attorney, loses his fortune and his reputation in the blink of an eye when he is swindled by his young law partner. Jeremy moves to Las Vegas to avoid the humiliation back home and finds a menial job slinging burgers. Does romance forsake a man who has lost it all? ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired real estate lawyer from Belleville, Ontario, Canada who operated a one-man law firm in that beautiful city from 1973 until 2009. Still residing in Belleville with his lovely English wife, Jane and their ...

"The Ultimate Guide to Sole Proprietorships" is a comprehensive ebook that provides aspiring entrepreneurs and current sole proprietors with the essential knowledge and practical guidance needed to succeed in the world of business ownership. Whether you're just starting out or looking to scale your existing sole proprietorship, this book covers every aspect of establishing, managing, and growing a successful business on your own terms. From understanding the legal and tax considerations to navigating the challenges and seizing growth opportunities, this guide is your trusted companion ...

Defense attorney Ellie Vance takes the case of Daniel Sterling, accused of murdering Councilman Thorne. She soon discovers Sterling is guilty, but was coerced. The real motive wasn't Sterling's failed project dispute; Thorne had unearthed proof of a massive corporate fraud involving faked geological surveys for the OmniCorp tower, implicating Sterling from years ago and OmniCorp's powerful CEO, Alistair Finchley. As Ellie investigates, she realizes Thorne was silenced to protect Finchley and OmniCorp.

Mike Daley and ex-wife Rosie Fernandez face new challenges and stare down old demons as they return to work at the San Francisco Public Defender's Office where they had started their careers and their relationship 20 years earlier. Mike and Rosie are now the co-heads of the Felony Division, where they spend more time running the office and supervising younger attorneys than trying cases. That changes quickly when Mike is visited by Melinda Nguyen, whose son, Thomas, is about to go on trial for murder.

In this bestselling debut, criminal defense lawyer Joe Dillard has become jaded over the years as he's tried to balance his career against his conscience. Savvy but cynical, Dillard wants to quit doing criminal defense, but he can't resist the chance to represent someone who might actually be innocent. His drug-addicted sister has just been released from prison and his mother is succumbing to Alzheimer's, but Dillard's commitment to the case never wavers despite the personal troubles and professional demands that threaten to destroy him.

I think Pastor James and I did something sinful. I have to tell someone. I grab my church brother, Cody and pull him into the Sunday School room after service. He says what we did was normal, that he had to do it too to move up in Pride Horizon church. This is only tradition—ordained by the Lord himself. Our privacy is quickly interrupted when Pastor James and Bishop Faulk enter the room. Pastor explains my next step in the process to church leadership is taking the Bishop the way I took him. And sharing is a value of the church. The clothes begin to come off and Bishop takes my neck in ...

Leo had been raised by his older brother, Teddy, a top criminal lawyer both renowned and notorious for his talent and ruthlessness. Though different in character and viewpoint, Leo always tried to emulate Teddy, striving to be recognized by his brother as a fellow lawyer in his own right. The two are at lunch when Teddy, supposed to give the closing argument of his current trial that afternoon, is shot - in public, in the middle of the bar. But the shooter escapes without Leo catching even a glimpse of him.

What if the deadliest train wreck in the nation's history was no accident? When a passenger train derails in North Philadelphia with fatal results, idealistic criminal defense attorney Vaughn Coburn takes on the most personal case of his young career. The surviving engineer is his cousin Eddy, and when Eddy asks Vaughn to defend him, he can't help but accept. Vaughn has a debt to repay, for he and his cousin share an old secret—one that changed both their lives forever.

From the bestselling author of A Killer’s Wife, Victor Methos’s acclaimed Desert Plains series continues with the saga of two brilliant defense attorneys and a client whose confession may not be what it seems.

Once a wife, mother, and witness to a gruesome crime, Leah Trenton was extended a miraculous olive branch in the form of the state's protected witness program. But for this second chance at life, Leah would have to leave behind her Midwestern roots to the northernmost tip of Maine. Alone and isolated along the banks of the Allagash River, she is determined to focus on the present, on her reclaimed future, but the demons of her past, are relentlessly chipping away at Leah's protected hideaway.