Hostile Takeover - Bouma J. A.

Small-town lawyer. Big-time threat. brutal personal stakes.

Gideon O'Donnell is your typical Midwest lawyer with city-high hopes crashing into small-town reality. Except those days are almost over with the case of Gideon's career nearly ready to go to trial with the promise of a major payday. Those days are also numbered.

Not only are those broke, bootstrapping days catching up to him, with his renegade ways skirting the respectable side of the law ticking off the wrong people. Tragedy strikes close to home - threatening his case with him in the crosshairs of justice.

But all is not what it seems.

When this small-town lawyer meets big-time threats, the story roars to life - catapulting Gideon and his team into local, national, and global stakes that threaten his town, his family, and everything he has worked for his entire life.

This briskly paced story combines unexpected twists and entwines the storylines of those closest to him to weave a page-turning legal drama with a shocking conclusion and compelling, real-world implications that will leave you breathless.

Hostile Takeover is the first standalone full-length Mill Creek Junction novel and the start of stories with small-town renegade lawyer Gideon O'Donnell who must solve his most personal case yet.

His own.