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

That evening, we had dinner at the Wooden Angel, a restaurant located some forty miles north of Pittsburgh in the city of Beaver. The Wooden Angel had been a fixture in the area since the late sixties and was reportedly the only restaurant in the country to have won a major award from Wine Spectator magazine for a wine list consisting exclusively of American wines. The food and wine were superb, as was the service.


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