The Holdout: One Woman. One Revolution. One Verdict - Couverture souple

Laura, Lexie

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798868941214

Editeur : 4heartbeats Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

One woman infiltrated the jury.

One man was buried by the system

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Together, they're about to change the rules...forever.

P was sentenced to life for a crime he didn't commit. Forgotten. Silenced. Crushed beneath the weight of a justice system that was never built to protect him. Years have passed, but the echo of that gavel still haunts him. The cell walls are closing in, the world outside has moved on, and hope is a currency he can no longer afford. But Alexis Carpenter never forgot. She was there. Watching. Waiting. Calculating every move from the shadows.

She's more than a brilliant legal mind... she's a storm wrapped in silk, a strategist with a taste for dismantling the status quo. For her, justice isn't a principle. It's a weapon. And P is the one case that ever truly mattered, the one that carved a wound so deep she's never stopped bleeding for it.

Now, Alexis is stepping back into the fire. Back into the courtroom where everything was lost. But this time she's armed with more than evidence, she's armed with secrets, allies in unlikely places, and a plan that cuts to the heart of a conspiracy stretching farther than either of them could have imagined. Judges, juries, prosecutors, power brokers...no one is beyond suspicion.

As the noose of corruption tightens, Alexis and P find themselves locked in a dangerous game where every move has a cost. Their freedom. Their love. Their lives. To win, they'll have to decide how far they're willing to go. Will they rewrite the verdict? Will they expose the truth no matter the fallout? Or will they burn the whole rotten system to the ground and rebuild it from the ashes?

Gripping, seductive, and unrelenting, The Holdout is a razor-edged psychological legal thriller about love sharpened into a weapon, justice stolen and reclaimed, and the dangerous line between saving the innocent and destroying yourself in the process. It's a story that dares to ask the most dangerous question of all: What if justice isn't given... it's taken?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lexie Laura is an author whose work blends heart-stopping suspense with deeply human emotion. She has written Mud Blood, Pulling the Rope Together, And So We Begin, War Inside My Head: Memoir of an Overthinker, and Mercy Street Is a Lie. Her novels center on resilience, justice, and the complex intersections of love and survival.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: 4heartbeats Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798868941214
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 94
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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