Estlyn is good at cutting deals. The one she's working on now will get her a clean criminal record—and get her brother and incarcerated father off the hook, too. The only problem is, she's going to have to orchestrate a murder to get it done.Gavin Young wants to be governor of California, and he wants it so badly that he's willing to do anything to win. Estlyn's job is pretty straightforward: make Young look like the better candidate. But to do that, she'll have to frame an acquitt...

James Sterling doesn't know the first thing about After Twelve, but he's heard the rumors—and if Estlyn can take down a District Attorney in grand fashion – well that's exactly the type of service he's looking for. The way he reaches out to her sets off alarm bells, but she's strapped for cash, so Estlyn agrees to a meeting. At first it sounds like the perfect After Twelve case, and there's something magnetic about James that Estlyn feels instantly – but the means to his end are so deplora...

Not everyone can get justice the traditional way—that's where Estlyn Collins comes in. A young lawyer in Santa Monica, her "legal" service, After Twelve, works outside the courtroom to tip the scales when the justice system has failed.For a price.Thanks to her powerful underground network, Estlyn's success rate is stellar, and her inbox stays filled with inquires from the desperate and vengeful. But when one of those names is a ghost from her past seeking vengeance against ...