Protect And Defend

She was a girl really with short red hair and a waiflike slimness. Butdespite the flowered dress she wore her belly had begun to show. Immobile thegirl gazed at... » 

She was a girl really with short red hair and a waiflike slimness. Butdespite the flowered dress she wore her belly had begun to show. Immobile thegirl gazed at the clinic as though it were a thousand miles away. The youngwoman is Mary Ann Tierney. She is fifteen years old. Within days her name willbe known to millions across America her court case a television mustwatch foreveryone from the President downwards. As Mary Ann takes on her own parents andthe constitutional law of the United States in a desperate bid to protect herfuture right to bear children the ramifications of the Tierney case bring athreat to the new President Kerry Kilcannon to his nominee for Chief JusticeCaroline Masters and to his main rival for the Presidency Senator ChadPalmer. All have dangerous secrets in their past secrets that would not onlythreaten careers but bring death and tragedy to innocent lives. «