A Heart Without Precedent
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Beverly Moore
Published: Oct 31 2026
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Victoria Lane has built her reputation on precision, discipline, and an unwavering command of the law. As senior counsel at the powerful Lane & Associates, she is expected to secure a decisive victory for the firm's most influential client, real-estate magnate Marcus Harrison, in his bitter divorce from Elena. The evidence appears conclusive: the prenuptial agreement limits Elena's settlement, and the financial records seem to show that she made no direct monetary contribution to the empire her husband built.Then James Carter walks into the deposition. Once the firm's brightest protégé, he abandoned its polished corridors to represent people routinely crushed by corporate power. Now he stands opposite Victoria, carrying a piece of overlooked evidence that challenges the story Marcus has spent years presenting as fact. A long-buried guarantee reveals that Elena pledged her inheritance to secure the foundational financing of Harrison's business. The case is no longer a routine enforcement of a contract. It is a fight over concealed contributions, equitable ownership, and the human cost of turning a marriage into a financial instrument.Victoria is forced to confront questions that cannot be answered by precedent alone. James's challenge unsettles her certainty, not simply because he is formidable, but because he insists that the law must account for the people hidden behind corporate structures and carefully drafted agreements. As the dispute moves toward Chancery, the two lawyers find themselves drawn into a contest that tests their judgment, their loyalties, and the values that shaped their careers.The deeper Victoria investigates, the more troubling the record becomes. Offshore entities, suppressed agreements, and the decisions of her own father, founding partner Arthur Lane, point toward a deliberate effort to conceal Elena's rights and protect Marcus's fortune. The discovery threatens the reputation of the firm and the family legacy Victoria has spent her life preparing to inherit. She must choose between defending the machinery that made her powerful and exposing wrongdoing that reaches into the heart of her own home.With Elena's future at stake and James refusing to retreat from the truth, Victoria faces the most consequential argument of her life.
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