Melody Madson's a bored, genius attorney, thrilled when assigned her first case. But, when her relationship with her BFF sours as a friendship at the firm develops, she starts to have feelings for her boss' son, and the key medical record in her case is lost, Melody feels her life is crumbling. Eventually, Melody finds the record but, before she can celebrate, she's caught. Will she be able to save the case - or herself?
Jodie Toohey is the owner and operator of Wordsy Woman Author Services, a company that helps authors, soon-to-be authors, and want-to-be authors from pre-idea to readers with craft advice, revision and editing services, and book marketing planning services. She is the author of seven books, three poetry collections - Crush and Other Love Poems for Girls, The Other Side of Crazy, and Versed in Nature: Hiking Northwest Illinois and West Iowa State Parks - and three novels - Missing Emily: Croatian Life Letters, Melody Madson - May It Please the Court?, Taming the Twisted, and Taming the Twisted 2 Reconstructing Rain. Jodie lives with her family in Davenport, Iowa.
A teenager who has led a phenomenal life with much success hits a roadblock with her first real world working experience. She finds that adults are more difficult to figure out than taking the bar exam and becoming a lawyer. With the help of her best friend, she prevails and finds justice for her first client. This would be a good read for a young adult and shows that brains and intelligence aren't an obstacle to connecting with romance.