"I am not made by the things that happen to me, but only by my reaction to them."

"Pattie's Best Deal," the first novel in a series of four romantic legal thrillers, is set in Lower Manhattan in 2003. It follows the life of Pattie Anwald, an attractive young public defender at the start of her career. Pattie means well and she has a good heart, but her crushing New York lifestyle eventually takes its toll on her. When a client vanishes and a mysterious villain terrorizes her, her life spirals out of control.

An edgy romantic legal thriller with a...