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She Writes Press will publish Lori B. Duff’s debut novel, Devil’s Defense, in November.

In Devil’s Defense, Jessica Fischer wants nothing more than to build her law practice in small-town Ashton, Georgia. She’s well on her way when the local town hero, football coach Frank “Tripp” Wishingham III, hires her to represent him in a paternity suit. Coach is everything Jessica despises — arrogant, sexist, entitled — but it’s her job to make him look good in public. This is made doubly difficult when her burgeoning relationship with a local reporter gets in the way of telling the truth.

Are things as black and white as Jessica thinks? And can she find a way to succeed without compromising her own personal values — or her personal life?

Devil’s Defense melds Duff’s 30 years of legal experience with her knack for dialogue and observation of the human condition to give readers a courtroom drama filled with realistic action that will make you laugh as often as cry out with righteous indignance.  Building on timely themes of modern sexual politics, the difference between personal and professional ethics, the complex nature of truth, and the #MeToo movement, Devil’s Defense is an entertaining read with surprising depth.

Duff is an award-winning humor writer and immediate past-president of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.

Pre-orders are available from your favorite local bookshop or by visiting Simon and Schuster.