
Genre:
Suspense
Themes:
Addiction
Danger / In Peril / On the Run
Legal Thriller
Mystery / Suspense
Second Chance
Starting Over
Heat Level:
Medium (sex scenes are included and may use mildly graphic description)
Archetypes:
Lawyer / Judge / Paralegal
Geographic Location:
United States: Midwest
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Lesbian
Protagonist Identity:
Black / African American
Trigger/Content Warning:
Murder of bad guys
Nine Nights on the Windy Tree
By Martha Miller
Lawyer, drugs, a seductive cop and more
Bertha Brannon is a lawyer who takes care of her grandmother and is usually broke because the work she often takes is pro bono or sliding scale for the domestic violence shelter or the public defender for juvenile cases. She has eighteen months of sobriety from a cocaine addiction. Late Friday afternoon, she’s looking forward to a long and peaceful weekend, when a woman comes into her office who wants to retain her for a murder she hasn’t yet committed. Bertha needs the rent money. Thus begins a living roller-coaster ride that includes betrayal, arson, and murder. While making trips back to the drug-using haunts, Bertha meets a police woman who wants her, but she’s not sure for what. Is it just sex or is there something more?
Prequel to Widow