SHADOWS OF THE ADVOCATE

What if defending monsters slowly turned you into one? In the gritty underbelly of a city where justice has a price, a cynical defense attorney discovers his name carved into a murderers' registry-in handwriting that is not his own. Twenty years ago, a mysterious man placed a strange, pulsing ring on his desk and made an offer: wear it, and every criminal you free will feed its power. In exchange, one day, he will return to demand a final defense-not of a human, but of the shadow itself. Driven by ambition, the young lawyer shook his hand. He did not know that handshake would open a door to a darkness from which there is no return. Now, two decades later, he is hired to defend the prime suspect in a horrifying ritual murder-seven children arranged in a scene of calculated savagery. The case will make him rich. It will also force him to confront symbols carved into the crime scene: symbols that perfectly match the engravings on his ring. As a friend with a dark past warns him: "This case will take you to a place from which you cannot return." Part legal thriller, part supernatural horror, Shadows of the Advocate is a gripping tale of moral decay, ancient curses, and the terrifying realization that the line between defending evil and becoming it is thinner than we dare to imagine. For readers of The Devil's Advocate and True Detective.