For the Defense - Maggie Wells

For the Defense

By Maggie Wells

  • Release Date: 2021-08-24
  • Genre: Romance
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Description

She'd bring down a criminal

With or without his lawyer’s help.

Deputy Lori Cabrera is shocked to discover that a powerful local businessman is a front for a drug-trafficking ring tucked away in her own rural Georgia community. It figures his defense attorney is none other than the distractingly handsome Simon Wingate. Can Lori convince Simon his client is guilty as sin? If she can, the big-city attorney could be putting more than his heart on the line to see that justice is served.

From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served.

Discover more action-packed stories in the Raising the Bar Brief series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order:

Book 1: An Absence of Motive
Book 2: For the Defense
Book 3: Trial in the Backwoods

Reviews

  • Entertaining Romantic Suspense

    4
    By alreadycrzy
    This is the second book the Raising the Bar Brief series. It can be read and enjoyed as a standalone but it is connected to the first book An Absence of Motive. It's well written with a storyline that kept me turning the pages. Nice suspense with some romance, it's a clean story. The series takes place in Pine Bluff, GA a small town located in Masters County. This is Lori and Simon's story. Lori is a Masters County sheriff's deputy, for her everything is black and white; right or wrong. Simon is in town to take over his granddad’s law firm and let the dust settle on a scandal he got embroiled in. Simon's soon up to his neck in problems with his new client and Lori the woman he has a thing for is looking at him with disgust in her eyes. Is it possible for a sheriff's deputy and a defense attorney to see eye to eye on things? Will Simon reconsider staying in Pine Bluff? I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

  • Good suspense

    4
    By abooknut247
    Maggie has provided us with a fun new criminal suspense. Her books do seem to fit really well in the harlequin series and I find them quite captivating. With a good blend of intrigue and romance, it’s a book that had me flipping towards the end. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

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