Bøger af Deborah Hawkins

Someone is trying to kill Cameron Rhodes. But he doesn't know who or why.Cam has led a nearly perfect life. Ivy league education. Grandson of a founding partner of Goldstein, Miller, and Mahoney. A young partner at forty-five with a rich attorney wife and two perfect daughters, Cam believes that he has everything he could possibly want until the day Raven Adair, a seductive Irish solicitor, taps him to defend her father Lachlan, the best-selling Irish writer.Lachlan is charged with the murder of his wife, actress Nora Carson. Past her prime, Nora's demands for a leading role have tanked Lachlan's chances for a lucrative movie deal for his latest book. As the bullets fly and Cam fights his attraction to Raven, he faces overwhelming evidence that Nora's fall in her California mansion was no accident. Lachlan had motive and opportunity to kill his inconvenient wife, and Raven isn't telling him everything she knows about the night Nora died. As Cam's perfect life begins to unravel, can he save himself and pull off a defense for a very guilty client?If you like fast-paced action authentic courtroom conflicts, and edge-of-your-seat twists, then you'll love Unforgettable, A Legal Thriller, the sixth standalone novel in the riveting Warrick-Thompson Files series!

Never, ever give up on someone you can't go a day without thinking about Winner, Beverly Hills Books Award, 2015Honorable Mention, Paris Book FestivalSuccessful attorney Karen Moon falls into a tumultuous affair with sexy jazz trumpet player Stan Benedict. She fights for Stan until a heartbreaking tragedy tears them apart. But Carrie is the only woman he will ever love. "Some things are too strong. No one will ever come between those two." An unforgettable love story about loss, infidelity, forgiveness, and self-discovery

He's living the high life. But if he can't prove his innocence, he'll be joining the low-lifes behind bars.Rising legal star Jeff Ryder lives for fast cars and beautiful women. But after winning his greatest case ever, he's charged with perjury during an attempted murder trial and risks losing everything. In disgrace and with his career in free fall, Ryder goes underground to discover who has him in their sights.As he closes in on the truth, Ryder falls hard for the one woman who could take things from bad to worse. And after an evening of forbidden passion, he wakes to find himself the prime suspect when his ethics accuser turns up dead.Can Ryder uncover a vengeful plot before every last thing he loves is taken from him?Mirror, Mirror, A Legal Thriller is the second standalone novel in the page-turning Warrick-Thompson Files series. If you like complex characters, dark conspiracies, and pulse-pounding action, then you'll love Deborah Hawkins' roller coaster read.

If you like fast-paced action authentic courtroom conflicts, and edge-of-your-seat twists, then you'll love Dark Moon, A Legal Thriller! The fix is in to convict a former U.S. Supreme Court Clerk of the murder of her ex-husband unless legendary criminal defense attorney Sarah Knight can beat the odds. No one knows why Sarah left her prestigious partnership at New York powerhouse Craig, Lewis, and Weller to set up a solo shop in San Diego, but Sarah's marching orders from the appointments clerk of the San Diego Superior Court are clear: lose this case or you'll never work in this town again. Coleman Reed, now a United States Supreme Court Justice, still owns the legal community in San Diego just as much as he did when he was a partner at Warrick, Thompson. From his lofty perch in Washington, D.C., he has decreed that his ex-daughter-in-law belongs on death row and to hell with due process. Sarah Knight, with her international reputation, is the perfect attorney to make things look good while throwing her client's case. But there's just one problem: Sarah is also the only attorney in San Diego willing to stand up to Coleman Reed. And she stubbornly believes her client is innocent despite the mountain of evidence against her. Jim Mitchell, ex-FBI agent turned private investigator, has come to San Diego to escape his own painful past. He's intrigued by the driven, hard-drinking defense attorney with the mysterious scar on her cheek, and he persuades Sarah to make him part of the defense team. Jim quickly proves his value when he discovers that Coleman's son had a taste for high-priced call girls and was entangled in an extensive pattern of criminal financial dealings. But just when it looks like Jim has won the advantage for the defense, Coleman Reed manipulates the trial judge to exclude their star witness on the eve of trial. With her client's life hanging in the balance, Sarah must decide if she's willing to risk her own life to defeat Coleman Reed. Dark Moon, A Legal Thriller is the first standalone novel in the riveting Warrick-Thompson Files series. h2>

An innocent man is scheduled to die. A United States Supreme Court nominee holds the key to his freedom. Which will she choose? Her career or his life?For thirty years, Brendan Murphy has done the impossible. He has kept his client, Professor Edward Wynne Carter, III, alive on Virginia's Death Row. Three juries have convicted Ed of murdering his pregnant wife in 1983, but Ed continues to insist that the real killer is Allison Byrd, the law student who stalked him relentlessly and whose lies sent him to Death Row. Now Ed's execution is set for March 3, 2017, the day before his son Wynne's marriage to Claire Chastain. McKenzie Fitzgerald, a name partner in Hugh Mahoney's San Diego law firm, learns of Ed's impending execution on the day that she also learns she has been nominated to the United States Supreme Court. She has evidence of Ed's innocence, but her career will be destroyed if she reveals it. Determined to save her career, she stubbornly insists Ed is guilty. Claire enlists the help of Jeff Ryder to help her prove that Allison is the real killer. But when Claire is kidnaped on her wedding day, and Brendan has a heart attack, Jeff becomes responsible for saving Claire and Ed in the face of mounting evidence that Ed had both motive and opportunity to kill his wife.

The hard-drinking party boy is guilty of murder. Or is he?Andy Owens was drunk the night Nate McClellan fell off his father's yacht. Although his memory is hazy and the evidence is stacked against him, Andy sincerely believes that he didn't kill his best friend. But no one, including his defense attorneys, will believe him. Andy's legal credentials aren't sterling. He was almost last in his law school class, and he flunked the bar twice. But no one else is willing to search for the truth. Andy has no choice, but he isn't prepared for what he finds. After her husband dies in another woman's bed in Washington D.C., criminal defense attorney, Charlotte Estes, returns to San Diego to begin a new life as a partner at Goldstein, Miller, Mahoney and Estes. But she can't escape her past. The attempts on her life that began in D.C. follow her west, and she's forced to take on the defense of Andy Owens, the son of the man who betrayed her thirty years ago. Sean Donovan's partnership at Goldstein, Miller is hanging by a thread. He doesn't like Charlotte Estes, and he doesn't want to help her defend the Owens case. But Hugh Mahoney gives him no choice. If Andy isn't acquitted, Sean's career at the firm is over. But Sean and Charlotte both know that the thirty-two-year-old, hard-drinking party boy is guilty.

For several decades, studies have supported the idea that gratitude has many positive benefits. It boosts optimism, a sense of personal control, and even enhances relationships. Keeping a simple gratitude journal, where daily entries are made identifying things that spark gratitude, has become a very popular. Deborah Hawkins, originator of NoSmallThing.net, goes beyond listing little boons to generate good feelings. In this book, she teaches techniques for mindfulness, self-inquiry, and writing to build memories that activate strong positive emotions. This guide and workbook helps readers understand what kinds of personal experiences prompt uplifting feelings of gratitude in them, develop broad themes that apply to these experiences, and then use these themes to see and experience gratitude in new situations. This approach can empower anyone to begin each new day with confidence that things they love and value are already present. A companion book, Best of No Small Thing - Mindful Meditations provides examples of posts that were written using this process.