01749cam a2200385 i 4500 2118693633 TxAuBib 20250416120000.0 250125s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781250342997 1250342996 (OCoLC)1429665357 TxAuBib rda Koval, Kristin, author. Penitence : a novel / Kristin Koval. First edition. New York : Celadon Books, 2025. 312 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "When their thirteen-year-old daughter Nora kills her terminally ill brother, Angie and David Sheehan struggle to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. They turn to small-town lawyer Martine Dumont for help, but Martine isn't just legal counsel-she's also the mother of Angie's ill-fated first love, Julian, a successful criminal defense attorney. Martine promptly draws him into the legal battle against an overreaching district attorney determined to try Nora as an adult."-- Provided by publisher. 20250416. Criminal defense lawyers Fiction. Families Colorado Fiction. First loves Fiction. Fratricide Fiction. Siblings Fiction. Terminally ill Fiction. Women lawyers Fiction. Colorado Fiction. New York (N.Y.) Fiction. TXKIP