Title
Altar of Ashes - Paperback
by Bruce Westrate (Author)
A ritual killing. A child bride. A courtroom that could fracture a nation.
When two young hunters stumble upon an unthinkable scene deep in the Indiana woods-a ten-year-old girl burned alive on her husband's funeral pyre in an apparent act of sati-a quiet community is thrust into a legal and moral firestorm.
Prosecutor Allen Southworth thought he understood justice. He was wrong.
What begins as a horrific murder case quickly spirals into something far more explosive: a collision of religious freedom, cultural identity, and the limits of tolerance in modern America. As national media descends and tensions ignite, the courtroom becomes a battleground where the law itself is put on trial.
But the crisis is not only public-it's deeply personal.
Southworth's marriage is unraveling. His judgment is clouded. And his growing attraction to his brilliant, enigmatic co-counsel threatens to compromise everything he claims to stand for.
Across the aisle stands Madison Fulbright-his former colleague, now a formidable legal adversary-ready to dismantle not just his case, but his certainty about right and wrong.
As the trial escalates, lines blur:
- Between justice and ideology
- Between compassion and complicity
- Between what is legal-and what is right
In a nation already divided, this case forces a question no one is prepared to answer: What happens when tolerance protects the intolerable?
Altar of Ashes is a gripping, high-stakes legal thriller that dares to go where few novels will-into the volatile intersection of law, culture, and conscience-building toward a shocking conclusion that will leave readers questioning everything they believe about justice.
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by Bruce Westrate (Author)
A ritual killing. A child bride. A courtroom that could fracture a nation.
When two young hunters stumble upon an unthinkable scene deep in the Indiana woods-a ten-year-old girl burned alive on her husband's funeral pyre in an apparent act of sati-a quiet community is thrust into a legal and moral firestorm.
Prosecutor Allen Southworth thought he understood justice. He was wrong.
What begins as a horrific murder case quickly spirals into something far more explosive: a collision of religious freedom, cultural identity, and the limits of tolerance in modern America. As national media descends and tensions ignite, the courtroom becomes a battleground where the law itself is put on trial.
But the crisis is not only public-it's deeply personal.
Southworth's marriage is unraveling. His judgment is clouded. And his growing attraction to his brilliant, enigmatic co-counsel threatens to compromise everything he claims to stand for.
Across the aisle stands Madison Fulbright-his former colleague, now a formidable legal adversary-ready to dismantle not just his case, but his certainty about right and wrong.
As the trial escalates, lines blur:
- Between justice and ideology
- Between compassion and complicity
- Between what is legal-and what is right
In a nation already divided, this case forces a question no one is prepared to answer: What happens when tolerance protects the intolerable?
Altar of Ashes is a gripping, high-stakes legal thriller that dares to go where few novels will-into the volatile intersection of law, culture, and conscience-building toward a shocking conclusion that will leave readers questioning everything they believe about justice.
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