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Sometimes love resides above the law.
What happens when a prominent and successful Chicago Judge falls in love with her driver?
Angela Jenkins decided as a child that she would become a lawyer. Fighting injustices perpetrated against those who could not or would not fight for themselves ran like passion through her veins. Growing up, Angela was taught that putting God first in her life, respecting the rights and choices of others, and working hard, were the most important things a person should strive for.
While in pursuit of her law degree, Angela meets Rhonda, Theresa, and Darlene who are there reaching for the same goals. Over the next two decades, an unbreakable bond forms and friends become sisters.
Angela finds the more successful she becomes, the more she begins to lose her connection with God and starts conforming more to the world, than to the word of God.
When love enters her heart, she must decide if having a relationship is more important than what others, including her friends, have to say. Angela is forced to look at what's important in her life and has to choose between allowing others to shape who she is or conforming to what God wants her to be.
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April 19, 2009: Opposites definitely attract is the main adage that propels through this heartwarming tale of love, friendship and spirituality.
Serving Justice by Jacqueline D. Moore is an intimate love story that interlaces the delicacy of two worlds uniting while dealing with precious friendships and realisms which seem to shatter some misconceptions that society may perpetuate. The novel also details the spiritual journey that one may take in exploration of finding the security of one's faith. Judge Angela Jenkins is the protagonist in this beautiful love story. As powerful and tantalizing as her title and occupation could expel, Judge Angela Jenkins retreats to her first layer of identity which includes being true to herself. The object of her affection is our kind-hearted and blue collar, Tony, who escorts her to a fabulous function which will be attended by all of Chicago's finest-including her dearest and closest friends Theresa, Darlene and Rhonda. What would they say if they see these two together? Will her professional and duly successful friends accept this union into their world? And most importantly, what would placing such judgments about others say about themselves?What happens next includes a whirlwind of truths surfaced, confronted and ultimately resolved by all of the characters; the story follows the journey of Angela and her friends as they endure the passion, pleasure and pain of what life has to offer them. Upbeat, enchanting and well paced, Serving Justice, offers the reader a cherished view into the world of these ladies. It offers the elements of redemption, pain and most of all, unconditional love. Most deserving of the highest marks, this novel meets and exceeds one's expectations.