
Genre:
Thriller
Themes:
Character with Disability
Mature Lead 40+
Heat Level:
Sweet (kissing, holding hands, etc., but no other on-the-page physical intimacy)
Archetypes:
Blue Collar Worker
Criminal / Mafia / Prisoner
Detective / Investigator / Bounty Hunter
Law Enforcement
Lawyer / Judge / Paralegal
Student
Unemployed / Retired / Recent Graduate / Seeking New Career
Geographic Location:
United States
Setting:
Academic / School / University
Big City / Urban
Corporation / Office / Workplace
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Bi or Pansexual
Lesbian
Trigger/Content Warning:
attempted sexual assault, gun violence
Steel City Confidential
Lesfic Bard Award
By Anne Hagan
Clients hide things from their lawyers all the time. Pam Wilson makes it an art form.
Pam’s been on the run from the law for years and she was getting away with it. The statute of limitations ran out on most of her crimes. For her spouse Charlotte? Not so much. Though they were aging, they looked forward to enjoying their golden years and, hopefully, forgetting about the past.
Life got complicated when Charlotte became gravely ill, their daughter got pregnant with the child of a married man…a married man someone took shots at from a rare motorcycle Pam happens to own. When the man was shot again and killed in his office at Pitt a couple of weeks later, the police found all signs pointing to Pam.
Rochelle ‘Ro’ Rabinowitz, a second-generation Pittsburgh lawyer, and her little firm take on Pam’s case pro-bono. Ro thinks it’s a slam dunk for the defense and hands the case off to her new associate and – she hopes – her future partner in the firm, Dominique, to get her feet wet in a courtroom. Clients are never completely honest with their lawyers and Ro and Dominque soon learn this one is no exception.
Slam dunk? More like a pipe dream…