"Receiving a call from the old family attorney, Max quickly obliges his request and jumps on a plane back home. But will this trip be different? Having struggled through a difficult ordeal in his family as a child, Max is hopeful but not expectant of good news. Will the ordeal finally be over? His flight is only the beginning. Max remembers what brought him to this moment. His father, Jamie Cooper, a devoted dad and faithful employee, had been accused of stealing $30,000 from the bank he worked for, charged and arrested in a moment. In the ensuing months, Jamie hired a defense team and fought to clear his name both in a civil trial and a criminal trial. But would the combined strength of the town's powerful chief of police, a man who'd held a grudge against the Cooper family for years, and the bank owner's son, Alden Stillwell, prove to be more than Jamie could fend off? Follow the quick-paced trials and their dramatic effects"--Page 4 of cover.