THE FIRST ENTRY

Some convictions aren't mistakes. They're products.

Defense attorney Dani Reyes thought she'd buried the worst of it. Then an investigator drops two old cases on her desk-two men, convicted decades apart, in different counties, by the same impossible pattern. One routing stamp. One method. One hand, reaching back further than anyone has dared to look.

The trail leads to a name everyone in Texas law was raised to revere: a retired judge, a celebrated reformer, a man who has never once raised his voice-and never once lost. He doesn't threaten Dani. He invites her for coffee. Because he knew her mentor. Because he's been watching her whole career. Because he believes she's one of his.

To free an innocent man, Dani has to prove a crime that was never written down-and the closer she gets, the more she understands the case isn't about a single victim, or even a single judge. It's about something built fifty years ago that learned to survive the man who made it. Something she may already be part of.

The verdict was never the end. It was the first entry.

A relentless, emotionally charged legal thriller for readers who love a courtroom showdown, a morally complex heroine, and a villain you can't stop thinking about. Book 4 of the Dani Reyes series-gripping as a standalone, lethal as a finale.