Ne er-do-well immigration attorney Harrison Bent can t imagine why the wealthy and mysterious Maggie Leudecke wants him to solve her eminent domain problem. If he didn t have an angry wife to placate, an inscrutable stalker to identify, an obsessed girlfriend to escape, and a murder to solve, a successful outcome to the Leudecke case might revive his career, pay for his autistic son s special school, and most important of all help convince his young paralegal, Chloe, that the afternoon she spent with him in a cheap motel wasn t an error in judgment, but the beginning of something profound. If only he had some clue as to what he was doing . . . . From the book: " I know myself. That s the good news. That s also the bad news. For example, I knew I was not equipped to deal with the Leudecke case. I also knew I wouldn t turn it down or hand it off to somebody better suited. But, seriously, what background did I have in eminent domain? Or with Mexican drug dealers? Or dead Mexican drug dealers? None. And I knew it. ""