When the defendant in a high-profile lawsuit ends up dead, a woman judge finds that revelations about her own double life threaten her career as well as her life

When Deborah Knott's terminally ill aunt, Rachel, is found smothered to death in her bed at a hospice center, all of her Colleton County kith and kin are shocked. Who kills a dying woman? As Deborah and her husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, try to find Rachel's killer, they cross paths with the Designated Daughters, a support group for caregivers, not all of whom are women. Rachel's flamboyant daughter, Sally, is a member, and when a con artist...

Back in the United States and ensconced in a new home on Big Pine Mountain in North Carolina, the Sisterhood are meeting their new employers, who have a dangerous new assignment in mind

When a local commissioner is murdered in the wake of struggles between housing developers and farmers in the North Carolina countryside, judge Deborah Knot and her husband find themselves in the middle of an increasingly violent dispute

"There is no match for the Sisterhood--not even the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Although the women foiled former FBI director Mitch Riley's plot to frame their friends Judge Nellie Easter and lawyer Lizzie Fox, now they must remain in exile or risk capture. They can't complain about their opulent digs on a remote, luxurious mountaintop, but the ladies desperately miss home. Their wish to return might come true sooner than they expect when they...

The Sisterhood is asked by a mysterious client to find a computer hacker who has stolen a list of secret fundraisers' names and sold it to an identity-theft ring, and they soon discover that the job is more dangerous than they expected

Presiding over the trial of a powerful drug cartel member, Judge Aubrey Madison finds her life threatened, and Texas Ranger Sean McNair isn't taking any chances. Protecting the widow and her twins comes naturally to Sean--maybe too naturally for a guy who'sconvinced he shouldn't have a family. But he can't help wishing for a future with Aubrey...if he can keep her alive.

While in New York for their delayed honeymoon, Judge Deborah Knott and Dwight Bryant agree to deliver a package to NYPD lieutenant Sigrid Harald, but when a doorman is murdered and the package goes missing, Deborah and Dwight join the investigation.

A Massachusetts Family Court judge must decide custory for a twelve-year-old adopted girl caught between warring parents

Her upcoming nuptials complicated by her overbearing family, renovations on her house, and the arrival of her fiancés young son, judge Deborah Knott tackles an additional challenge when a murder takes place