I’m shouting it out today for a new title that my friend Penny at Author Marketing Experts told me about: Legally Blind.
Thanks, Penny!
Here’s the scoop:
What if doing the right thing meant defending someone you could never forgive?
Justice isn’t always as simple as determining guilt or innocence. Sometimes, the hardest battle is deciding whether someone deserves a second chance.
In Cathy Donald’s Legally Blind, defense attorney Chelsea Turner faces that very dilemma when she’s assigned to represent Joel Radebe, a man accused of murder. But Joel isn’t just another client. He’s responsible for the bombing that killed Chelsea’s father when she was a child.
Although Joel was convicted, imprisoned, and later granted amnesty, the damage to Chelsea’s family remains. Now, decades later, he’s facing a new murder charge, and Chelsea must set aside her personal history to confront a troubling possibility: What if he’s innocent this time?
Set against the backdrop of South Africa, Legally Blind weaves a murder mystery with the emotional weight of a daughter torn between loyalty to her father’s memory and her responsibility to seek the truth.
When justice and forgiveness are two very different things, how do you decide what’s right?
Author bio:
Cathy Donald is a South African novelist and former medical doctor. After qualifying in medicine in 1984, she practiced in both rural communities and urban private practice, most recently running a women’s health practice in Somerset West.
Alongside her medical career, she wrote scripts, music, and lyrics for amateur dramatic productions, particularly for schools and youth groups. She has since published multiple novels, many of them set in South Africa and centered on family, resilience, and the moral choices that shape people’s lives.
Her novel The Silence of the Shadows received the Jury Prize at the Milan International Literary Awards in 2022.
Learn more at www.cathydonald.co.za.
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