About Betrayal:

Robin Lockwood is now a prominent defense attorney in Portland, Oregon but a decade ago, she was a ranked and rising MMA fighter. Her career came to a quick end when she was knocked out and concussed in the first round by Mandy Kerrigan, a much more talented fighter. Now the situation couldn't be more different, with Kerrigan on her last legs, her career nearly over, arrested for the quadruple murder of the entire Finch family...and Kerrigan's only possible friend is the attorney she beat so many years ago. For Robin, it's no simple case: Margaret Finch was a lawyer working for vicious Russian mobsters, and was in the cross-hairs of both the mobsters and the widower of a woman a client killed; her husband Aaron Finch was deeply in debt to a bookie who threatened his life; her son Ryan was the one who sold Kerrigan illegal performance enhancing drugs and was beaten severely by her when Kerrigan failed her drug test. To complicate matters further, the DA that Robin is facing is the man she's just started dating, the first person she's begun seeing seriously after her husband was killed.

In a case where the stakes are high and the truth is elusive, where each new fact twists the case in a new direction, there is seemingly no way to win or direction to turn that will leave Robin Lockwood unscathed.

Author bio:

Phil Margolin graduated from The American University in 1965 and New York University School of Law in 1970. From 1965 to 1967, he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia, West Africa. From 1972 until 1996, he practiced criminal defense at the trial and appellate levels, appearing before the United States Supreme Court and representing 30 people charged with homicide, including several who faced the death penalty.

Since 1996, Phil has been writing full-time. He is the author of 27 novels, most of which have been New York Times bestsellers. He has been nominated for an Edgar, two of his books have been made into movies, two have been nominated for an Oregon Book Award and two of his short stories have been included in “The Best American Mystery Stories” Anthology.

Phil was a co-founder of Chess for Success, a non-profit charity that uses chess to teach elementary and middle school children in Title I schools study skills.