This legal thriller would rival any work put out there by John Grisham. Fast paced and packed with righteous drama, this novel is exciting to say the least.
Two employees of a fashion conglomerate headquarters in New York City get stuck in an elevator, but only one of them comes out alive. One of them is the head of the company's human resources department and the other is a relatively new hire in the legal department: this is Shay Lambert, and she is now being held on suspicion of murder. I think I could safely say that everyone would dread getting stuck in an elevator. As if claustrophobia weren't enough, now throw in a gun and an unstable passenger.
This job at the fashion empire was a liberator for Shay. She had been living in destitution along with her husband ever since their fall from grace in the financial crisis of 2008. A brilliant lawyer who had now fallen on hard times, Shay just needed to get her career going again so she and her husband could crawl their way out of extreme debt. But she lands in a nest of corruption and evil which she discovers soon after her hiring at the huge company.
Fighting the murder charges takes all of Shay's skillset as she finds herself in a position in which she is being framed by people far more powerful and influential than her. Shady dealings and corrupt corporate ethics lie at the heart of this electrifying story. I found myself rooting for Shay to flip the script and I was not disappointed. If you can get past the rather complicated jargon and legal situations that come into play in the last third of the book, then you are in for a great ride.
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