Issue #0

The Trial

Plot

Attorney Kent "Mac" MacClain has nothing left to live for. Nine years after the horrific accident that claimed the life of his wife and two sons, he's finally given up. His empty house a mirror for his empty soul, it seems suicide is the only escape. Now the question is death by pill or by bullet? And then the phone rings. Angela Hightower, the beautiful heiress and daughter of the most powerful man in Dennison Springs' has been found dead at the bottom of a ravine in her yellow porsche. the accused killer, Peter Thomason, needs a lawyer. But Mac has come up against the Hightowers and their ruthless, high-powered lawyers before--an encounter that left his practice and reputation reeling. The stakes are high, but can Mac turn down a man whose life is on the line? Mac takes the case. Thomason asserts his innocence, but the circumstantial evidence pointing to his guilt seems insurmountable. Is Mac defending an ingenious psychopath who deserves the death penalty? Or, Mac begins to wonder, has Thomason been framed--possibly by a member of the victim's own family? It comes down to a trial. A trial for the life of Pete Thomason. And a trial for the soul of Mac McClain. For Thomason, the opponent is the electric chair. But Mac faces his own tormented past -- a foe that for him will ne every bit as deadly