Alumni Association

The acclaimed author of Noble Chase lays down the law with an irresistible tale of buried secrets and gloves-off legal combat at a secretive military school—for readers of John Grisham, Greg Iles, and Linda Fairstein. When young attorney Beth Swahn agrees to represent a former military academy facing demolition, what begins as a simple real estate litigation soon becomes a dangerously real threat. Beth's stepfather, a founding partner at her law firm, is part of the now-shuttered school's alumni association that's determined to see its old campus preserved as a historical landmark, safe from developers' bulldozers. But beneath the campus's main building—once the nineteenth-century mansion of Napoleon Bonaparte's older brother—runs an extensive network of tunnels, which may be where the alumni's true interest lies . . . along with their school days' darkest secrets. As more of the academy's former cadets become entangled in the case, and...