Attorney Charles Barnett thought it was all over for him and his heart. In the three years since his partner died, he hasn't felt so much as a spark of attraction to another man. That suddenly changes when Charles is assigned a new case and meets his new client.<br><br>Recent widower Philip d'Autremont has been traveling in all the same circles as Charles, but somehow they've never managed to meet. Now that they have, both men find themselves falling hard and fast.<br><br>But there's more than one hurdle to Charles and Philip beginning a love affair, much less maintaining it: Philip is on trial for murder, a politically ambitious and homophobic district attorney is determined to convict him, and Charles is responsible for Philip's defense.

Trial

“In my judgment, it’s safer that way. You won’t be tempted to try and take the easy way out.”


“Andrew, you know perfectly well that I’m not in the habit of taking the easy way out of anything. Furthermore, nothing of what you’ve told me entirely explains the cloak and dagger routine this evening.”


Chapter 7