The Defendant

Home is where the heart is... Detective Sergeant Chase Barrington has never forgotten his high school sweetheart. He and Josie Munro planned to marry as soon as she graduated, but fate stepped in and Chase made the painful decision to end it. Unable to find the courage to tell her the truth, he left town without a word of explanation. A decade after graduating high school, Doctor Josie Munro, Child Psychologist, has recently returned to her hometown. When she's appointed by the court to provide a report on a child's capacity to stand trial for murder, it's inevitable that she runs into the lead detective on the case. Unaware of the real reason why Chase ended their relationship, her anger and grief from all those years ago immediately rise to the surface. Being a consummate professional, she has no choice but to complete the task she's been given, but she's determined to keep Chase at a distance and to get the job over with as quickly as possible. As Josie gets to know the child through therapy sessions, she's torn between doing what the law requires of her against what her heart knows is right. She's also conflicted over her feelings for Chase. She wants to hate him, but she can't. Will she follow her head or her heart?

Author: Chris Taylor
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Lct Productions Pty Limited
Published: 03/03/2015
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9781925119169

About the Author
Always an avid reader of romance books, Chris Taylor's career as a criminal lawyer sparked a thirst for mystery and intrigue. She has managed to successfully combine both in her romantic suspense stories which are full of emotionally engaging characters searching for love amidst the high drama of police investigations. In 2013, Chris won the Romance Writers of Australia Emerald Award, Australia's highest award for unpublished authors of romance. She is currently a finalist for Australian Romance Readers Award for Best New Author 2014. Her stories are set both in the city and in the bush and have a uniquely Australian feel to them. Chris has written nine books, all of which are part of the Munro Family series. She is currently working on her tenth.