Love. Infidelity... and Revenge

Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales, was an ordinary young woman who was picked to be the future queen. Her wedding was a worldwide sensation. But she was deceived and betrayed before the honeymoon was over. Five months after a fairy-tale wedding, suicide attempts, illicit affairs, and paranoia that there were plots by the royals to kill her became the norm as the fairy tale turned into a horror story.

After suffering degradation and humiliation at the hands of her hus-band, the heir to the British throne, she shoots him with one of his own antique pistols. Paranoid that her own attorneys are deceiving her, the princess reaches across the Atlantic and hires a woman who doesn't put a price on loyalty to defend her.

Marlowe James is an American trial lawyer. Dubbed the "Burning Bed lawyer" by the news media because of her successful defense of women who've killed their abusive husbands, Marlowe not only has to do battle in the Old Bailey with barristers loyal to the Crown, she has to come to grips with her own feelings about a woman who has been handed everything any woman would desire—and thrown it all away.

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