Juror #3

Ruby Bozarth, a newcomer to Rosedale, Mississippi, is also fresh to the
Mississippi Bar--and to the docket of Circuit Judge Baylor, who taps
Ruby as defense counsel in a racially charged felony.
The murder of a woman from one of the town's oldest families has
Rosedale's upper crust howling for blood, and the prosecutor is
counting on Ruby's inexperience to help him deliver a swift conviction.
Ruby's client is a college football star who has returned home after a
career-ending injury, and she is determined to build a defense that
will stick. She finds help in unexpected quarters from Suzanne, a hardcharging
attorney armed to the teeth, and Shorty, a diner cook who
knows more than he lets on.
Ruby never belonged to the country-club set, but once she nearly
married into it. As news breaks of a second murder, Ruby's ex-fiancé,
Lee Greene, shows up on her doorstep--a Southern gentleman in need
of a savior. As lurid, intertwining investigations unfold, no one in
Rosedale can be trusted, especially the twelve men and women
impaneled on the jury. They may be hiding the most incendiary secret
of all.