The Light Most Favorable

Disbarred and ashamed, Boston lawyer Jack Breen fears he's become so insubstantial he won't cast a shadow or have a reflection -- even in a diamond dust mirror.

Desperate from a string of bad months, he dipped into some cash he was holding for a client. "A loan," he told himself. "I'll pay it back. No harm, no foul." But the truth came out. A man on the rise became a man on the skids.

Down to his last dollar and his last chance, Breen drifts west. Maybe, in open country he can find a way to set things right.

In the Arizona borderland, Breen rekindles an old romance with Claire Gaynor, the woman he walked out on years before. Sole heir to a family ranching tradition, Claire welcomes the help of a lawyer -- even one stripped of his license, even one that broke her heart in a former life.

Breen knows how to handle himself in a legal street fight. But a man with a troubled past and a few unreckoned sins makes an easy target. He'll need more than quick wits and a silver tongue to come out on top this time. Amidst echoes of hoofbeats and gunfire, he puts his life on the line.

The American West. Still a place for a new beginning. A man can make a life there -- if he has the courage to take a stand.