After her divorce, December Vaughn leaves her job at a big
corporate law firm in Ohio and heads south. She liquidates
her savings, rents a house from relatives and opens a solo
law practice in Orange Grove, Florida. Although her moving
truck of furniture takes an inconvenient detour, December
opens her office anyway and waits for clients to arrive.
Her best friend, Max, is a beautiful former-pageant winner
and also her efficient office manager. December's first
clients are referrals from her Aunt Celia or pro-bono work
from the local Legal Aid office.
Business gets interesting when she takes on Charlie
Deaver's case. He wants to sue the manufacturer of the
tainted insulin that killed his young wife, and his first
lawyer has abruptly retired. December used to work on
pharmaceutical cases, but she isn't confident about how big
this case could become. When other lawyers try to
intimidate her and steal her client, she stubbornly refuses
to back down.
December is determined to focus on her new clients, and
gorgeous private investigator and former Navy SEAL Jake
Brody is the kind of distraction she doesn't need right
now. With just a few cases and clients, December has
already made several enemies. When her car, her
professional character, her office, her home and her body
are all attacked in seemingly unrelated incidents, the
coincidences point to a bigger problem. Jake keeps offering
to be her knight in shining armor, if only December could
figure out who wants to kill her!
Alesia Holliday gets her new chick-lit mystery
series off to a terrific start. It stars a lawyer with a
big heart and is funny and smart. Her story is populated
with likable, high-interest secondary characters who
deserve more attention in future novels. Jake Brody reminds
me of Stephanie Plum's Ranger in all of the best ways --
he's sexy and mysterious and he doesn't operate within the
law when people he cares about are in danger. December is
supposed to be an airhead, but except for a few bad blonde
jokes, this novel portrays her as a capable, hardworking
and honest lawyer. I will definitely watch for the next
December Vaughn mystery in October 2006.
When a lawyer who’s smarter than she looks and more
stubborn than anybody expects opens a solo practice in
small town Florida, she takes on the big drug company that
killed the wife of her first major client. In her fight for
justice, she encounters a kleptomaniac pro bono client, an
Armani-clad bullfighter best friend, a poker-champ neighbor
who bakes cookies, and a P.I. so hot he makes her rethink
her No Bad Boys Rule . . . but she never suspects she may
wind up literally laughing herself to death.
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