Ashley Montgomery

When a defense attorney becomes the defendant, one small town is forced to reconsider their ideas of good and evil. Successful public defender Ashley Montgomery helps acquit yet another client and people in small-town Brine, Iowa are enraged. Following the verdict, a protest breaks out, and the hated defense attorney quickly finds her life in danger. But little does Ashley know, things are about to get worse - much worse.

When teenager Rachel Smithson is charged with murdering her newborn baby in a hotel room, Ashley is appointed to represent her. Determined to prove her client innocent, Ashley delves into the secret life and relationships of the quiet teen, and turns up more questions than answers.

Nobody is surprised when a fire erupts on a property owned by Frank Vinny, who’s been using the wooded lot for the highly flammable process of meth manufacturing - until two bodies are pulled from the wreckage.

Public defender Ashley Montgomery is shocked when a well-known local is found in a lake at the outskirts of Brine County, dead and locked inside a large toolbox. Ashley has represented the victim and her boyfriend, Noah, for many years. The Brine County sheriff's department goes after Noah as their main suspect, but Ashley is intent on his innocence, and she injects herself into the investigation to protect him. A search of his house turns up a series of letters addressed to Erica. The letters prove that someone else was in contact with the victim before her death.

Living in a prime location for wind energy, the locals in the small town of Brine, Iowa, find themselves locked in a vicious battle with a wealthy oil company that is buying struggling farm properties to put up windmills. Half the town is for the windmill projects, the other half will stop at nothing to keep the iron giants out of their skyline. When the conflict turns violent, a murder shakes the town and leaves expert public defender Ashley Montgomery with a trial on her hands that is both criminal and political.

When Oliver Banks is charged with attempted murder after hitting a pedestrian with a car, Defense Attorney Ashley Montgomery is hesitant to take his case. Something is off about Oliver, and when troubling new information emerges, she begins to suspect he might be entangled in something far worse than this one crime.