| Miami attorney Gail
Connor has no idea what's in store for her when she accepts old friend Patrick Norris as a
client. The estate of wealthy Althea Tibbett is one prize in a bitter battle between
unreformed flower child Patrick, his artistic cousins, and an assortment of charities.
Soon, Connor finds deeper and deeper complications, including murder, career criminals,
and financial misdeeds of the lowest kind. The occasional predictability of the plot is
balanced by Connor's dilemmas, so familiar to many women: an adolescent daughter still
grieving for her absent father, a romantic Hispanic attorney tentatively learning to know
both mother and daughter, and the elusive goal of a partnership in an influential law firm
if Connor compromises certain ideals. |
