Julian Blackwood, the youngest equity partner at New York’s elite law firm Blackwood & Chase, was supposed to glide through the final mile of his federal judgeship nomination. After an industry cocktail party, he wakes up in the same hotel suite as his longtime nemesis—Kael Voss, the star litigator of Davis & Holt. A cold severance, courtroom counterattacks, family pressure, a political marriage… he thought he could hold all the chips at once. But just as his engagement announcement hits the papers and he locks in the lead on a major merger case, a single gossip push notification throws him into another trial.
