It was a long, hard fought battle for Judge Kristen
Catherine Bryant to be appointed by the President of the
United States to a judgeship on the DC Circuit Federal
Court of Appeals. She endured Congressional interrogations,
press and news media interviews, speaking engagements, and
grips and grins with intestinal fortitude and no little
amount of patience and guile. That was all now behind her.
She had a month to decompress before she had to move from
Chicago, Illinois, to Washington, DC, to assume her new
post. A little vacation to a private Polynesian Island,
where no one knew her, was the perfect getaway. What she
didn’t want was to share her two-bedroom, two bath luxury
suite with a complete stranger; a man she had never met.
Especially dangerous was what this liaison would do to her
sterling reputation if a whiff of this got to the media and
the scandal that would ensue. Her highly-coveted judgeship
could be over before it started.
International attorney Thomas Ashton Marshall, III, was
highly sought after when big clients wanted to win. His
Marshall and Marshall, Portland, Oregon, law offices were a
place he rarely visited as were the courts in the US. After
winning his most recent case and learning that an appeal
had been filed, the media never let up dogging his tracks.
He sought a little privacy and to rest and relax at the
Plaza de Masquerada, the place of masks, where his identity
never needs to be revealed. What happens at the Plaza stays
at the Plaza. That is until he was forced to spend nearly a
month with his unintentional suitemate and then a week of
passion before she disappears. He refused to give up
looking for the woman he only knew as KC. Cinderella she
wasn’t, but if the shoe fit…
Judge Bryant would never forget Ash even in the face of her
former fiancé’s sudden and unexpected hidden agenda for
wanting them back together. That was bad enough, but on her
first day on the bench as a newly appointed federal judge,
the bottom dropped out of her world when her former fiancé
stood for the plaintiff and her secret lover stood for the
defense in her courtroom.
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