Pending Litigation

About the Book

Charity McLaughlin is a well-respected, 32-year-old trial lawyer with a stormy past and a secret.

Charity suffers from manic depression and has been hospitalized in mental institutions twice. Her condition causes her deep distress, and she must live with the fear that she could spiral into mania at any time. Through determination and treatment she maintains a semblance of normalcy in her life, and excellence in her law practice.

One rainy day in February, Deborah Elledge comes to her and explains that her husband recently died under mysterious circumstances in the mental ward of Good Hope Memorial Hospital, while undergoing treatment for manic depression. Mrs. Elledge asks Charity to pursue a possible medical malpractice case against the hospital.

Charity is chilled by the story, and her heart goes out to the grieving widow. In spite of her concerns that the facts surrounding the case are personally disturbing to her, Charity takes the case and becomes deeply involved in its investigation. She is shocked to uncover not only malpractice, but murder. What she does not realize is that in pursuing the case she is not only risking her sanity, but very likely her life as well.

About the Author

Cheryl Robbins Berg has been a trial lawyer for the past 25 years. She served as president of the Washington Bar Association Litigation Section, the Puget Sound Inn of Court, and the Washington State Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. She has lectured on trial practice in seminars around the country. Cheryl now lives in Gig Harbor, Washington with her husband Rick, cocker Cassidy and cat Sushi. She enjoys travel, theater, boating and the piano, and is an avid reader. This is her first novel.