Conflict of Interest, is a masterpiece of suspense -- a complex and profound novel featuring a veteran female district attorney attempting to reconstruct her shattered personal life when she is suddenly plunged into a moral, legal, and emotional nightmare. Joanne Kuhlman is a razor-sharp Assistant District Attorney, the kind of prosecutor who shows no mercy to the guilty -- until she suddenly finds herself sympathetic to a defendant. And when she becomes attracted to his defense attorney, the newly divorced mom is thrown into ethical and emotional turmoil.