Annabeth's first case as a young, aggressive prosecutor in suburbia involves a woman who set fire to her house to save her family from a mentally and physically abusive patriarch who kept them imprisoned in the house.
Annabeth takes a chance by denying a kidnapping suspect his right to have a lawyer present during his interrogation in the hopes of determining the whereabouts of his latest victim.
Annabeth's latest case involves a madam whose stable of prostitutes consists of middle-class soccer moms.
When an extremely religious woman murders her husband and claims that the killing was divinely directed, Annabeth must find the true motive for the woman's actions.
Two teenagers have their party busted and are found with narcotics as their father works for a pharmaceutical company. The teens say their parents are on vacation in Europe, but no one can seem to find them... that is until two bodies are discovered in the woods. Drug charges against the teens quickly become murder charges.
In the wake of a murder of a 6-year-old boy, Annabeth must contend with a defense attorney whose strategy is to place blame on the parents of the victim.
There is more to the story when a woman accused of fleeing the scene after running another woman down at a mall is prosecuted for reckless homicide.
Annabeth is placed under police protection after a gangster that she is prosecuting has his minions threaten to harm Haley.
In the midst of a trial where two men are being prosecuted for murder, it is revealed that one of the defendants was paid to commit the crime and accidentally killed the wrong people.
Annabeth tries to determine what drove a 14-year-old boy to attack a member of an opposing baseball team with a bat.
A doctor accuses a teenage delinquent of killing his wife, but there's more to the story when the suspect has an airtight alibi for the night of the murder.
Annabeth tries to get a defense lawyer to testify against his client in order to halt a hate crime.
A man who moves into Annabeth's neighborhood turns out to be a paroled sex offender who becomes the prime suspect in the rape of a young woman.
Annabeth tries to convince a mother to testify against her son after the man confesses to three murders.
Annabeth faces a fierce opponent in a defense lawyer who tries to mislead a jury in the case of a man who murdered his mother-in-law.
Annabeth discovers that there are hidden layers to an escaped criminal's story after the man is arrested for robbing a jewelry store.
A dishonest real estate developer draws the attention of Annabeth and company as they investigate a string of real estate fraud cases.
A high-school friend of Annabeth's dies after a game of touch football, she then tries to attach several of her former classmates to the murder.
She was hiding a secret from her family and friends that may have led to her murder. A woman was strangled the night before her wedding to another man, during the murder trial Annabeth learns that there's more to the story.
A high school basketball player confesses to shooting his teammate accidentally. Annabeth brings the young man to trial but during the trial a witness comes forward to testify the shooting was intentional.
A woman is thrown off a balcony to her death and a high profile professional baseball player is arrested for the murder. An eye witness, his mistress' sister claims she saw him throw her sister over the balcony.
A teenaged boy shoots and kills a middle aged man claiming he was protecting his friend from an on-line sexual predator. Threw further investigation the D.A.'s office learns that the victim was an investigative reporter doing a story on the dangers of the internet. Now Annebeth must establish weather or not if the victim was really doing a story or was it just an excuse to carry out his sexual perversions.