MERIT BRIDGES, an attorney and widowed mother in Austin, Texas, works hard, drinks too much wine, and sleeps with younger men. When Merit goes after a shady corporation threatening her client, she encounters hired gun Boots King. His charge is simple, “Stop her!” Merit and her team – including Betty, a mothering office manager with a bad-ass attitude – struggle to stay alive, while they navigate a labyrinth of legal issues, and prove once again that you don’t mess with a Texas lady lawyer.

In Book #2, Attorney Merit Bridges finds herself in danger again in Music Notes: Texas Lady Lawyer vs L.A. Baron. When client Liam Nolan is slain with his own guitar, Davey Ray Bell shows up claiming to be Nolan’s illegitimate son. L.A. Baron, Nolan’s former manager, makes a back-door music deal and tries to grab the estate for himself. When the probate court pushes Baron out of the power position, he pursues Merit with a vengeance. Using the dark web, he ruins her reputation, destroys her career, and finally attempts to take her life. Who will come out on top of the scales of music and the scales of justice?

BREAKING NEWS: THE ENFORCER STRIKES AGAIN AND MERIT BRIDGES IS MISSING! Uncertainty and fear grip Austin as a murderer, whom the press labels The Enforcer, leaves a trail of tortured bodies while avoiding identification and capture. Attorney Merit Bridges thinks it has nothing to do with her until she finds herself in danger when a client brings The Enforcer to her door. Young golf pro Mark Green borrows money from the wrong guy to keep his PGA tour dreams alive. He finds himself in so deep with Russian loan shark Browno Zars that he begs his lover Merit Bridges for her help. After Merit uses every legal trick in her book to extricate Mark from the Russian’s grip, she becomes a target. Merit awakens to find herself hanging from a meat hook and staring into the face of evil. What unfolds is a story of deceit and betrayal that will shock and thrill as the identity of The Enforcer is revealed. Merit must then outwit the sinister and dangerous adversary to save herself from torture and certain death. From award-winning author Manning Wolfe, a Merit Bridges Legal Thriller so chilling the pages crackle with life, revealing a plot so tight it pops.