When prosecutor Valerie Burke discovers a hidden supernatural courtroom beneath her small-town courthouse, she never expected to become the judge?or fall for the dangerously attractive bailiff who enforces her sentences.

Moving day at the Millbrook County Courthouse should have been simple. But when incompetent movers crack open a basement wall, prosecutor Valerie Burke uncovers a secret that turns her quiet legal career upside down. Hidden beneath the old courthouse lies the Shadow Court?a supernatural judicial system where vampires, fae, demons, and spirits settle their disputes in the human world.

Before she can process what she's seeing, Valerie is appointed as the court's new human judge, a position that's been vacant for thirty years. Her bailiff? Kieran?a fallen angel whose dark eyes hold centuries of secrets and whose job is to carry out whatever sentences she delivers, no matter how harsh.

As Valerie navigates supernatural law and otherworldly politics, she discovers that every ruling has consequences beyond anything she learned in law school. The Seelie Court wants to use her for their own agenda. Infernal demons offer tempting bargains wrapped in legal loopholes. And the mysterious factions watching her every move seem to know more about her appointment than she does.

But it's Kieran who proves the most dangerous distraction. Bound by ancient oaths to enforce her will, he's forbidden from influencing her decisions?yet their growing attraction threatens to compromise everything. When a conspiracy emerges to eliminate human involvement in supernatural justice, Valerie must choose between the man she's falling for and the cosmic balance that keeps both worlds safe.

Some courts rule on civil disputes. Others decide life and death.

This one determines the balance between the supernatural world and earth.