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A woman is given less than two years to live. She works a deal with an insurance company to get cash in exchange for allowing investors to collect on her policy when she dies. When she discovers that she has been misdiagnosed, she asks Jack Swyteck to defend her in court.

Seventeen-year-old Johnny is approached at his family's struggling shoe repair shop in a Miami, Florida, hotel by Alorian Princess Victoriana, who asks him to find her brother who was turned into a frog.

Now the owner of a successful Miami bar, ex-con Theo enjoys his new life--until a former gang associate breaks out of prison. But when the fugitive turns up dead, Theo finds himself in prison desperately trying to connect two murders and a recent attempt on his life.

A colorful cast of residents and visitors to Miami go about their daily activities, both legal and illegal. This is a big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. The police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay with officer Nestor Camacho on board. Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban mayor, the black police chief, a wanna-go-muckraking young journalist and his Yale-marinated...

Newspaper reporter Britt Montero investigates when the nude corpse of a beautiful woman washes up on the beach. The victim was murdered ten years ago, and her convicted killer--her husband--sits on death row awaiting execution.

Becoming suspicious when a homeless client produces a large amount of cash just before a murdered body is discovered in the car in which the client lives, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck finds himself racing to save the life of his best friend.

Tatum Knight is a former contract killer. And he's Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swytek's newest client. Tatum is the older brother of Jack's best friend, Theo. Theo himself spent time on death row until Jack found the evidence to prove him innocent. Jack isn't so sure about Tatum.

The Shadows is a historic 1920s house built during Prohibition by a notorious rumrunner who vanished at sea and inherited by his son whose shotgun murder on a ahot summer night forty-four years ago was never solved. Since then, only secrets and whispers have inhabited the Shadows.

When Anthony Quintana and Gail Connor are asked to take on the appeal of a death row inmate, they encounter opposition from the wealthy community where the crime took place as they suspect that their client has been the victim of a conspiracy.

Miami's top prosecutor becomes a prime suspect when his wife's disappearance may have a chilling connection to the vicious murders of beautiful women in the Florida Everglades.