Guilty of Innocence

Fiction Hardcover: 216 pages Publisher: Camino Books Release Date: March, 2000 ISBN: 0940159570 » Buy the Book

High-powered attorney Blair Cody is used to being in control. Confident, intelligent, and handsome, he has a well-deserved reputation as an outstanding trial lawyer. Since his recent divorce, he has shared his idyllic life in the rugged horse country of Pennsylvania with his beloved eleven-year-old daughter, Courtney. But when Courtney suddenly disappears, Blair's world is turned upside down. A harrowing cross-country search eventually reveals his child's whereabouts - but Blair's nightmare has just begun.

Blair must face the chilling realization that his conniving ex-wife, Michelle, is responsible for Courtney's abduction - and that his daughter may be in grave danger. Determined that Blair will not see Courtney again unless they get what they want from him, Michelle and her new boyfriend, the coldly calculating John Morgan, thwart all of Blair's efforts to contact his child. Exploiting the political connections of her own father, a key Republican Party player, Michelle manipulates lawyers and judges into granting her full custody of the child she kidnapped. But to Michelle, Courtney is merely a pawn in a selfish game of extortion and revenge, and the child's wellbeing is of little concern to her. And as Blair becomes entangled in Michelle's web of deceit, demons from his own troubled past resurface, sending his life spiraling further and further out of his control. Even hundreds of miles from his home, the murder of two men still haunts him, and the memory of the role he played in their deaths is one he cannot escape.

Suddenly, in an explosive confrontation, Michelle falls victim to her own guile - leaving Blair to fight the most important courtroom battle of his life. The stakes are higher than ever before as Blair is forced to test his resources against those of the LAPD, the California court system, and a powerful political machine that is determined to keep him and Courtney apart forever. Blair goes head to head with the enemy - but eventually realizes that he cannot save his daughter's future until he comes to terms with his own past. In front of a packed courtroom, Blair makes a startling decision that sends reverberations through the political and legal circles of two states - a decision that ultimately seals his little girl's fate.