Title: The child comes first
Description: Trial attorney Simon Montgomery rarely loses a case. But when an eleven-year-old girl stands accused of murder, the courtroom superstar faces his toughest challenge. The child's social worker, Jayda Kavanagh, thinks it's open and shut: her client didn't do it. And Jayda will stop at nothing to prove her innocence.Jayda isn't the only one who's bonding with the young girl. While he fights to win her freedom, Simon moves ahead with plans to adopt her. It means dredging up his own painful past. Coming clean about his growing feelings for Jayda.But Jayda's harboring a secret of her own--a secret that could affect their future together. And the child's.
Subjects: Fiction, Home & Family, Lawyers, Romance, Social workers, Trials (Murder), Fiction, romance, general
Places: Baltimore, Baltimore (Md.), Maryland