Retributive Justice

"BUT THEY'RE MIDDLE-CLASS WHITE KIDS." SO WERE THE MANSON GIRLS.

At least high-powered criminal lawyer Marc Kadella doesn't have to wonder whether his client is telling him the truth – his client is his own investigator, Tony Carvelli. Attacked by a group of club-wielding assailants in a dark parking lot, Tony tries to scare them off with his gun but accidentally shoots and kills one of them. Beaten with clubs, manhandled by police, facing a second degree murder charge . . . how did it come to this?

Tate Onelasa is on a mission to ease the spirits of 38 Native Americans hanged in Mankato, Minnesota in 1862 in the largest mass execution in U.S. history. In any case, that's the story the homeless Native American drifter used to bedazzle the small following of college students he has drawn to him to help him wreak revenge on the white man. The truth at the heart of a spate of grisly murders and assaults is much simpler: he's a sociopath with an equal opportunity murder policy.

Aiyana, raped repeatedly by her white adoptive father, the only other Native American among the followers, has provided the alchemy that transformed the youths from disillusioned, disaffected college students into knife-wielding killers.

In a frenzy of righteous indignation, they execute Aiyana's adoptive parents, provoking her grandparents into hiring Tony to find her. But the group steps in to eliminate him, the accidental shot is fired, and suddenly Tony is on the receiving end of the U.S. justice system.

No way the team of Kadella, Carvelli, and Rivers is going to take this lying down. The tough guy on the team, gorgeous Maddy Rivers, who's also Marc's beloved, shines as she turns over every leaf and stone in the Tri-State area of Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota to find the missing pieces of the puzzle.

A sweet interlude that allows Marc and Maddy a gracious wedding and blissful honeymoon gives the lie to the old saw, "Old lawyers never die. They just lose their appeal."

There'll be no appeal in this case. Marc and Maddy pull out every trick in the book to nail this case shut.