An Invincible Summer
Betta Ferrendelli
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ASIN: B015ZZFP4K
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Jaime works as a deputy assistant D.A. in the Domestic Violence Unit of the Denver County District Attorney’s Office. She's nearly thirty, she's put in three years in this high-stress job, and she's handling her first major trial for a brutal rape and murder of a teenager - a case that not only makes her question her job, but the world around her. 

Victim Kelly's younger sister is one of the witnesses. And in order to get the shy, frightened girl to testify against her mother, Jaime must offer reassurances and tackle the girl's questions and nightmares, which lead to her own unresolved nightmares surrounding her sister Sarah. 

But this is just the opener for An Invincible Summer and the lead-in to a bigger story (if that is possible) that embraces not just one trial and one step in Jaime's career, but the extent of her life and choices and her successes and failures both on the job and at home. 

Readers of John Grisham and other courtroom dramas will find much to relish in An Invincible Summer, with its exact description of proceedings. Fans of thrillers will be attracted to the spunky protagonist Jaime, who displays very real, human emotions inside and outside of the courtroom. And followers of intrigue and mystery will find more than a dash of these elements spicing a story line that clearly delineates the boundaries between mother, lawyer and sister - and then slowly dissolves them in an intricate cross-examination of inter-connected lives. 

And when the invincible Jamie finds herself in need of some TLC, it may not come from blood bonds, but from relationships forged from somewhere else. 

It's the process of evolution and attaining completion and self-realization, injected into other themes of courtroom proceedings and home life, which makes An Invincible Summer so compelling a read. 

Perhaps one of its descriptions best sums up this process: "She rubbed her hands over the woman’s face. Then she saw what was missing. The intimacy of details. The ones that would bring the sculpture to life, into existence, had not yet been carved. The eyes, the curvature of their noses and mouths, the veins in their arms and on the back of their hands, their fingernails. They were the precise attention to details that needed time and effort and skill to shape and form. Drew ran his hand along the contours of the woman’s hair. “Until I can finish those, Jaime, the work isn’t complete.” 

The 'intimacy of details' is what the story line ultimately is all about, making An Invincible Summer a top recommendation for readers who enjoy courtroom drama but want proceedings to move beyond criminal law and into the complexity of evolving lives.