Forcing Amaryllis

Selecting twelve could mean eliminating one.

Calla Gentry is good at her job, and her job is jury consulting, helping to find the right people to serve, steering trials towards acquittals or convictions before they even begin. It’s psychology and marketing, it’s understanding people better than they understand themselves, and Calla plays the system expertly.

But when she gets hired to work a criminal case, the mission is simple—get the wealthy son of a rancher acquitted for a rap…