A dead partner, a murdered client it s more than attorney Joe McGuinness bargained for when he signed on at one of Pinnacle Peak, Arizona s most prestigious law firms. The ink on Joe s bar license is barely dry when the death of his firm s senior partner puts the young lawyer s job in jeopardy. Soon even more is at stake. While on a date with Mia Ortiz, personal assistant to one of the firm s wealthiest clients, Joe walks into a grisly murder scene. Mia s boss, Cordelia Barrett, and her son lie sprawled in a pool of blood. Joe knows Cordelia has recently changed her will, turning off the flow of money to her hotheaded son. But the police don t agree with Joe s theory of murder/suicide and arrest Mia for murder. Meanwhile, fellow lawyer Jerry Dan Kovacs is determined to prove the death of the firm s senior partner wasn t an accident. While Joe works fervently to free Mia, another body turns up and he must unravel a web of secrets to discover who is using murder to claim the rights of heir apparent."