The Light Most Favorable

Disbarred and ashamed, Boston lawyer Jack Breen fears he's become so insubstantial he won't cast a shadow or have a reflection -- even in a diamond dust mirror.

Desperate from a string of bad months, he dipped into some cash he was holding for a client.  "A loan," he told himself.  "I'll pay it back.  No harm, no foul."  But the truth came out.  A man on the rise became a man on the skids.

Down to his last dollar and his last chance, Breen drifts west.  Maybe, in open country he can find a way to set things right. 

In the Arizona borderland, Breen rekindles an old romance with Claire Gaynor, the woman he walked out on years before.  Sole heir to a family ranching tradition, Claire welcomes the help of a lawyer -- even one stripped of his license, even one that broke her heart in a former life. 

Breen knows how to handle himself in a legal street fight.  But a man with a troubled past and a few unreckoned sins makes an easy target.  He'll need more than quick wits and a silver tongue to come out on top this time.  Amidst echoes of hoofbeats and gunfire, he puts his life on the line.

The American West.  Still a place for a new beginning.  A man can make a life there -- if he has the courage to take a stand.

James Jennings is a fifth generation Oklahoman. His Chickasaw ancestors came West on the Trail of Tears and made a new beginning. Jim is a trial lawyer, practicing in Oklahoma City and his most recent novel Mirador was published in 2019 by Green Point Press. The Light Most Favorable was originally published in 2012 by Tradeworks Publishing.