Unarmed

Troy Duncan has just one thing on his mind: how he is going to give his two young children and fianc� a nice Christmas when it's unclear whether his job at a struggling restaurant will last through the winter. When he leaves work early on another slow night, he steps into a confrontation that changes his life forever.

Cleveland Police Officer Marc Baldwin has been on the job for more than two decades, risking his life every day to keep the city streets safe for others. One cold night in December, he gets a routine call to break up drug activity in the newly popular Flats district, but what happens there is anything but routine, as circumstances prompt Marc to draw and fire his service weapon. Attorney Casey Cort is finally changing her life for the better.

After an uplifting year of pro bono adoption work under her belt, she is hoping to start a practice free of the emotional turmoil and the moral ambiguity of criminal defense and divorce. Easier said than done, particularly when a new, high-profile referral comes from a most unlikely source.

Once again, Casey finds herself in the middle of a major controversy-and a city on the verge of a riot.

Unarmed is the next installment in the high stakes Casey Cort legal thriller series. If you like strong women, the fight for justice, and stories ripped from the headlines, you'll love Aime Austin's page-turning story.

About the Casey Cort Crime Fiction Series: Legal thriller readers will love this explosive series. Follow attorney Casey Cort from her first case to her most current. A solo practitioner she takes on the most difficult cases in Cleveland from investigating foster care abuses to judicial extortion to the sex trafficking of minors. Will the powers that be succeed in silencing her once and for all, or will the underdog lawyer represent those most in need of justice?

The Casey Cort series has everything thriller and suspense readers love: strong women, explosive secrets, David versus Goliath struggles, and stories ripped from the headlines, you’ll love Aime Austin’s page-turning novel. If you enjoy reading the Lynley series by Elizabeth George, and legal thrillers by John Grisham, Robin James, Melissa F. Miller, and Rebecca Forster. If you like, Phillip Margolin, Karin Slaughter, and Tana French you'll enjoy the Casey Cort series.