Books with author Brian Keith Lewis

WHAT IF you had to choose between:your seven-figure salaryyour fancy house in the exclusive suburbyour memberships at a posh health club and even posher country clubyour marriage(not your soul; you’ve been renting it out for so long, it’s as good as sold)anddoing the right thingAnd what if in doing the right thing, all of the above still wasn’t enough and you risked having to pay the ultimate price? This is the choice that Scott Fenney faces when he’s assigned a political hot potato of a pro bono defense case in Mark Gimenez’s debut legal thriller, The Color of Law.A poor-boy college football hero turned successful partner at a prominent Dallas firm—who long ago checked his conscience at the door—catches a case that forces him to choose between his enviable lifestyle and doing the right thing in this masterful debut legal thriller.Clark McCall, ne’er-do-well son of Texas millionaire senator and presidential hopeful Mack McCall, puts a major crimp in his father’s election plans when he winds up murdered—apparently by Shawanda Jones, a heroin-addicted hooker—after a tawdry night of booze, drugs, and rough sex.Scott Fenney, who’s worked his way to being a partner at an elite Dallas law firm, is assigned to provide Shawanda’s pro bono defense after the federal judge on the case hears him deliver an inspiring, altruistic—and completely insincere—speech to the local bar association. Scott plans to farm the case out to an old law school buddy, do-good-attorney Bobby Herrin. But his plans go awry when Shawanda puts her foot down in court and refuses to be passed off to the lawyer she considers the lesser attorney.As the case unfolds, pressure is exerted on Scott to deter him from being too aggressive in his defense of Shawanda. That pressure becomes palpable as Scott is slowly stripped of the things he’s come to care for most. Will he do the right thing—at a terrible cost—or the easy thing and keep his hard-earned fabulous life?With echoes of early John Grisham, THE COLOR OF LAW is a provocative page-turner that marks the stunning debut of a major new talent.

How can a child survive when she is torn away from everything she knows and becomes a kidnap victim? The young girl in Paper Dolls: A child's imagination helps her survive a kidnapping turns to her own creativity to keep her mind off what is happening. When a girl is swept away by a stranger, she relies on some paper dolls - and her imagination - to survive. Set in a dark forest, this stunning story will stay with you long after you turn the last page. Raised in El Paso, Texas, Briana Lewis is now a stay-at-home mom in Merritt Island, Florida. This is her first book. Her next will feature children's poetry. Publisher's website: http://sbpra.com/BrianaLewis

From West of Scotland Books webpage- This is the story of the most famous fighting men in the world-the Brigade of Guards-and of their magnificent tradition of discipline and courage. The author tells how the Brigade began and how it has shaped our history. It is a story filled with dramatic incident and heroism-a record of the men who have helped to make Britain great. It includes stories of the V.C.'s won by the Guards during the last war and of the battles they fought; it tells how recruits from all walks of life are infused with the spirit of a great past and how, after Dunkirk, Guardsmen were for the first time put into tanks and achieved some of their greatest triumphs. This book also reveals many fascinating little-known incidents in our island story; how the Guards gave New York its name; how a party of Coldstream Guards one stormy night helped to save the Rock of Gibraltar; how the Guardsmen won some of the first Crosses awarded by Queen ~ .Victoria in the Crimean War; how they fought at sea and how, with the Americans, they won one of the most amazing battles of the last war.