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64 Stories

  • Adjourned Love | CB by BreezyUrbann
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    A rising defense attorney is assigned the country's biggest murder trial. The defendant is accused of killing the wealthy heir to a powerful family, and with DNA, surveillance footage, and eyewitnesses against him, everyone believes the case is already over. As they prepare for trial, the attorney begins uncovering holes in the prosecution's story. Witnesses disappear, evidence goes missing, and it becomes clear someone is determined to make sure the defendant is convicted for a murder he didn't commit. Through long nights and prison visits, professional boundaries blur, and the two unexpectedly fall for each other. Then the attorney discovers the truth: the defendant is innocent of this murder-but he has been hiding a different killing from years ago. Before there's time to confront him, the real killer strikes again, proving the defendant was framed all along. The jury finds him not guilty, and he walks free. But the attorney is left with a devastating secret-the person they love escaped one murder trial... while carrying the guilt of another.
  • πΏπ‘œπ“‹π‘’ 𝐿𝑒𝒢𝓀𝑒𝒹 𝒢𝓃𝒹 π•ƒπ”Έπ•Žπ•Š by unhinged__author
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    When confidential government files exposing Yuvraj Dakshveer Pratap Shekhawat, Rajasthan's youngest Chief Minister, are leaked overnight, the nation turns against its golden prince. To defend him stands Advocate Adhrita Singh Rathore-the brilliant lawyer who has never lost a case. He trusts no one. She believes only in the truth. As politics, power, and hidden secrets collide, they are forced into an alliance where every courtroom battle uncovers another lie... and every step toward justice pulls them closer to each other. In a world where love becomes evidence and loyalty is put on trial, who will win-the truth or the heart?
  • The Shades of Red : Rose by Trojan_2011
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    After his fifteen-year-old daughter is brutally assaulted and murdered, a former Special Forces soldier watches the justice system bend under the weight of power and privilege. Haunted by war, consumed by grief, and driven beyond reason, he wages a secret campaign of vengeance against the wealthy young men he holds responsible-staging each death to appear as nothing more than a tragic accident. As the body count rises, a relentless detective uncovers a deadly pattern, leading to a courtroom battle where the line between justice and revenge is put on trial. How much blood must be spilled when justice has a price?
  • The Prosecutor's Sin by romanticHeart
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    She was supposed to prosecute him. She never expected to understand him. Meera D'Souza has built her career on one principle: the law comes first. When she is assigned to prosecute Adrian Voss-a powerful, calculating man whose influence reaches far beyond the courtroom-she knows exactly what she is facing. Or so she thinks. Witnesses disappear. Evidence is manipulated. Cases collapse. People who get too close to Adrian have a habit of disappearing from the picture. Yet Adrian doesn't behave like a man afraid of prosecution. He watches. He waits. And when Meera begins pulling at the threads of his case, she discovers something far more dangerous than a criminal empire. The system itself may be protecting him. The deeper she investigates, the harder it becomes to separate truth from manipulation. And Adrian seems determined to make her question everything she believes about guilt, justice, and control. He should be her enemy. She should want to see him behind bars. But somewhere between courtroom confrontations, threats, secrets, and dangerous encounters, something neither of them expected begins to develop. Something neither can completely control. Because sometimes the most dangerous line to cross isn't between right and wrong. It's between prosecutor and accused. And Meera is about to discover that justice has a price. Everyone has a weakness. Even the woman holding the law in her hands.
  • THE PEOPLE'S JUDGE  by PRESIDOWRITES
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    πŸ“˜βš–οΈ ABOUT THE BOOK - THE PEOPLE'S JUDGE The People's Judge is a gripping cinematic legal drama that explores the thin line between justice, control, truth, and power in a system that claims to protect the people but often protects itself instead. At the center of the story is Kang Ji-Hoon, a former top judge whose life is shaped by a painful childhood experience that exposed him early to the cruelty of unchecked power. What begins as a personal tragedy slowly transforms into a lifelong pursuit of meaning inside the legal world. As Ji-Hoon rises through the ranks of the judiciary, he becomes known for his intelligence, precision, and emotional distance. To the public, he is the perfect judge. To the system, he is an ideal instrument. But beneath his success lies a quiet conflict-one that begins to grow louder when he starts noticing inconsistencies buried deep within "finalized" legal outcomes. Alongside his small legal aid team, Ji-Hoon begins investigating cases that were declared closed, only to discover something far more disturbing than corruption-a hidden structure where outcomes appear to exist before trials even begin. What starts as legal curiosity gradually turns into a dangerous confrontation with a system that does not tolerate contradiction. The story expands beyond the courtroom into a layered world of legal manipulation, memory control, reconstructed realities, and institutional silence. Every case Ji-Hoon touches reveals another layer of truth that should not exist, and every truth brings him closer to becoming the very thing the system cannot classify: an anomaly. At the heart of the story is not just law, but humanity itself-questioning whether justice is truly about truth, or simply about what systems are allowed to recognize as truth. Through emotional tension, courtroom battles, psychological depth, and high-stakes moral conflict.
  • The AI Singer from Seoul Park Ok-gu by aitrot7080
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    A lonely digital music producer from Seoul creates an AI singer that captures the deep-seated sorrow and nostalgia of 1970s and 1980s Korean Trot. But as his music touches hearts across the globe, a mysterious online syndicate steals his catalog and his life's work. This is the story of a solitary artist's desperate battle for justice against a faceless entity.
  • COURT ROOM 6 by inayakaa
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    Aarohi Mehta, a 23-year-old law student, receives anonymous warnings before a series of brutal murders rock her city. As the killings trace back to a forgotten courtroom case, she is forced to confront the truth she once chose to hide. In a city built on silence, speaking up may be the most dangerous act of all.
  • THE RIVER BETWEEN US by jay5roc91
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    Jessie Vance walked out of prison with a cardboard box, a child's drawing, and 8,415 days behind him. Two weeks later, a deputy with a grudge and a conveniently malfunctioning body camera tries to send him back. The charge: assault on an officer. The evidence? A scratch he didn't put there. Kelly Brennan takes cases no one else wants. When she reads Jessie's file - seven years for defending himself, fifteen days of freedom, a deputy with a history of abuse - she pays his bond from her own pocket. Brings him to her farm. Gives him a shack with a leaking roof and a wood stove that smokes. He works the land. She builds the case. Strictly professional. But the farm is small. The nights are cold. And the river behind the pines is the first place Jessie has felt clean in twenty-three years. When Kelly follows him there - boots off, wading into water too cold to bear - the line between lawyer and client starts to give. Deputy Harlan isn't finished. The sheriff's office closes ranks. The prosecutor offers deals that taste like surrender. As Kelly digs deeper, she uncovers corruption far beyond one bad cop - a system that buries the innocent to protect its own. Witnesses are terrified. Threats arrive at the farm gate. And the trial is coming faster than either of them is ready for. Now Jessie must choose: run, fight, or sacrifice himself to protect the woman who risked everything for him. Kelly must decide what she's willing to lose - her career, her reputation, her carefully guarded heart - for a man the world has already condemned. Their arrangement was supposed to be temporary. Their feelings were supposed to wait. But the river doesn't stop for anyone. And neither does what's growing between them. A slow-burn romance wrapped in a legal thriller, set against the wide sky and cold water of rural Montana. For readers who want their love stories earned, their justice hard-won, and their redemption real.
  • The Unwanted Verdict by snehwrites09
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    The court punished the man who hurt her. Society never stopped punishing her." Seven years ago, Aditi Mehra survived a crime that changed her life forever. She refused to let it define her. Today, she stands in the courtroom not as a victim, but as one of Delhi's most fearless criminal lawyers-fighting for people whose voices have been silenced. Arjun Malhotra is the city's youngest public prosecutor. Brilliant. Respected. Impossible to defeat. Their first meeting ends in a heated courtroom argument. Their second ends over a cup of roadside chai. Soon, every case becomes another reason to challenge each other... and another reason to stay a little longer after court adjourns. Somewhere between legal debates, midnight case preparation, shared coffee, stolen smiles across the courtroom, and quiet drives through Delhi after exhausting hearings, rivalry turns into friendship. And friendship quietly becomes love. But just when Aditi begins believing that she can finally leave her past behind, an old case returns to the headlines, threatening to expose the one chapter of her life she has fought hardest to move beyond. Arjun discovers the truth before she is ready to tell him. Yet he never asks her to explain. Because he doesn't see the woman from the headlines. He sees the woman who argues until midnight, drinks too much chai, laughs at the worst jokes, fights for strangers as if they were family, and has unknowingly become the safest place his heart has ever known. As a powerful media house drags Aditi's past back into the public eye, the two lawyers find themselves on opposite sides of the biggest battle of their lives-not against each other, but against a society that refuses to let survivors simply live. Some verdicts are delivered in court. The hardest ones are delivered by society. And sometimes... Love is the only place where no explanation is ever needed.
  • The Last Exhibit by DreamCoder
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    It was the fall of 2023 when I got the call about a case that was destined to become infamous. A young woman had killed her own adoptive father-the man who had saved her life. Stabbed him seventeen times. And she was sticking to one story: it was a crime of passion. Was her adoptive father the hero the world admired, or was he a monster who had defiled his own daughter? Or was there another secret, buried even deeper? All the answers were hidden in a painting. A painting titled The Miner's Lamp. Author's Note: I post a new chapter almost every single day!
  • Ocular Denial by CrimeAfterTimeBooks
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    Grill a witness? No problem. Kill a witness? Big problem. What's worse than Dad killing Mom? How about the fear of turning into Dad? Whizbang defense attorney Declan McCord eats eyewitnesses for breakfast, but recent mental lapses imperil his career. Life hits a stunning new low when Declan is arrested for murder. He claims self-defense, but nobody buys it. Did he imagine the weapon? Did he imagine the threats? What else hasn't been real lately? Now Declan's psychiatrist may be forced to reveal dark secrets, and his girlfriend is pressuring him to plead insanity. The DA, who despises him, desperately needs a high-profile conviction. As obstacles stack up and his delirium grows worse, Declan must craft his own defense, with his only help coming from associates who may be hiding secrets of their own. In this flip-flop world where the lawyer becomes the accused, one man fights against a troubled past while launching a desperate battle for his freedom-and his sanity.
  • Thieves Exposed by AriStoneArt
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    The original Dream Vision journaling from 11.24.2016 showing my current situation to do with my lawsuit against Corey Goode and subsequent associated Dream Visions.
  • The Glass House: Hunting the Algorithm of Extortion by AnaximandroGochi
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    In the digital age, you are guilty until you pay. Anaximandro Gochi, a veteran litigation partner, takes on a faceless enemy: TraderKnows. This website hunts companies not with guns, but with algorithms. It scraped the ghost project StdAmeRiTradingPlatforms and the innocent OneYeeHolding, branding them scams before they even launched. Now, Gochi is fighting back to break their "Glass House" of extortion. A story of code, crime, and justice.
  • UNMASK (Season 1) by ErikGhostAuthor
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    The murder of a young investigative lawyer forces principled prosecutor Oleg, ambitious attorney Elena, and experienced chief Sergey to join forces. What begins as a local investigation transforms into a moral odyssey, uncovering personal dramas, corruption schemes, and an international conspiracy that led to her death. The team realizes that it's not just individuals, but the system itself that is poisoned-and that truth won't be enough unless it's defended. Events transcend national borders and clash with global interests, turning the battle for justice into a battle for the future.
  • 30 days  by _alenuchka_
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    Thirty days. One case the world won't stop watching. When a high-profile trial turns into a global spectacle, a brilliant lawyer is forced to argue justice under the glare of nonstop scrutiny. Every move is analyzed. Every mistake amplified. As the countdown to the verdict begins, the pressure fractures her certainty - professionally and personally. Truth becomes slippery. Motives blur. And the closer she gets to winning, the more she realizes the case is not asking the question everyone thinks it is. The verdict will be final. The consequences won't be.
  • Velvet Trap by Peninstinct650
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    She looked innocent. Soft-spoken. Harmless. He thought he was falling in love. What Elliot never saw was how every smile was calculated, every tear timed, and every touch designed to pull him deeper. What began as protection turns into possession, and love slowly becomes a weapon. In a world where power hides behind tenderness, Velvet Trap is a psychological thriller about control, consent, and the dangerous illusion of choice-where the prey wears the crown, and the truth arrives far too late.
  • THE ATTORNEY'S OATH by EGAlexander
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  • The First Case - Book 1 of the "Objection Overruled" Saga by JonStall
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    Fresh out of law school, Beatrice "Bea" Marston lands her dream job at the prestigious Lambert & Greene law firm. Eager to prove herself, she dives headfirst into her first assignment: a seemingly simple copyright dispute between a tech startup and a former employee. But when the plaintiff is found dead under mysterious circumstances, Bea quickly realizes this case is anything but straightforward. As she digs deeper, Bea uncovers a tangled web of corruption, betrayal, and dangerous secrets that extend far beyond the courtroom. With powerful enemies closing in and her career on the line, Bea must decide how far she's willing to go for the truth-and who she can trust in a world where even justice has its price. Perfect for fans of gripping legal thrillers, The First Case kicks off the Objection Overruled saga with suspense, high-stakes drama, and a heroine who refuses to back down.
  • The Glass House: The Case of the algorithm that blackmailed me by AnaximandroGochi
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    Based on a true investigation. In the digital age, you are guilty until you pay to be proven innocent. Anaximandro Gochi is a Senior Litigation Partner who thought he had seen it all-from street-level racketeering to white-collar fraud. But he has never faced a criminal like TraderKnows. It operates from the shadows of the internet, a website (https://www.traderknows.com/) that claims to protect investors. In reality, it is a ruthless algorithm designed to destroy reputations for profit. It doesn't hunt people; it hunts data. It scrapes government databases for new company names-like the ghost project StdAmeRiTradingPlatforms or the quiet OneYeeHolding-and automatically brands them as "Scams" before they even launch. When the victims beg for mercy, the machine offers a solution: Pay the ransom. This is the story of Operation Glass House. It is a look inside the legal war room as one lawyer attempts to unmask a Hong Kong-based phantom that has no address, no face, but a very real hunger for money. They thought they were invisible. They were wrong.