#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly garroted to  death... The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief...
To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant...

From Betty Smith, author of the beloved American classic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, comes an unsentimental yet radiant and powerfully uplifting tale of young love and marriage. In 1927, in Brooklyn, New York, Carl Brown and Annie McGairy meet and fall in love. Though only eighteen, Annie travels alone halfway across the country to the Midwestern University where Carl is studying law-and there they marry. But Carl and Annie's first year together is...

After Harvard-bound law student Samantha Fairchild witnesses a murder, she becomes the next target of an assassin. Sam seeks help from an investigative reporter who recruits her brother, Zach Angelino, to protect Sam. Now Sam and Zach must face their fears, desires, and doubts, before a hired killer gets a second shot.