Type: Novel and feature
Length: TBD
Genre: Thriller
Prosecutor Audrey Hale has been consumed by rage and obsessed with vengeance ever since her sister Claire’s life was derailed by a group of privileged prep school boys years ago. When the justice system failed to hold those boys accountable, she took matters into her own hands. And she has been patient and methodical in meting out her retribution.
But now one of those boys is about to be confirmed as the next Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, the most revered and least transparent of America’s political institutions, where he will concentrate his power and cement his legacy for generations to come. And he — along with the shadowy political operatives, billionaire donors, and ideological hardliners behind the ultra-conservative Palatine Society — intends to silence his detractors before they shed light on his sordid past.
Now on the defensive, Audrey must play cat-and-mouse with the judge while trying to finish what she started. Little does she know, however, that she’s about to discover just how deep the rot goes, and that her nemesis may be part of a larger conspiracy hell-bent on shackling not just one woman, but them all.
Original Intent is a multiple-perspective, female-focused conspiracy thriller about a local prosecutor struggling to get justice in a system rigged by and for the men who created it.
Written by Amy R. Martin and Khris Baxter
Novel in development
Book proposal and screen pitch available upon request