Motion to Compel

Cassidy Voss made legal history by winning the dead the right to testify. Now that right might set a killer free — or hang an innocent man. When tech founder Aldous Rourke is murdered, his estranged former partner Desmond Klein is the only suspect anyone ever looks at. Cassidy's defense is simple: subpoena the victim, and let him say who actually killed him. But when Rourke rises to testify, there's a gap in his memory exactly where the truth should be — too clean, too deliberate, nothing like ordinary decay. Someone got to him first. The trail leads Cassidy back to the one person she never thought to suspect: Marguerite Saintclair, the mentor who taught her everything she knows about raising the dead — and who has spent years quietly erasing whatever her wealthiest clients pay her to forget. To save her client, and to find out what her own life's work has actually made possible, Cassidy will have to summon a dying man a third time, past every safeguard the law allows, and risk losing him — and the truth — for good. A legal thriller for anyone who's ever wondered what happens after the witness is sworn in dead.