Jeanette Cooper's Novels
Drama, Romance, Passion, & Thrilling Suspense
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A passionate love story
filled with stormy emotions,
compassion, tenderness,
and riveting suspense.
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AUTHOR'S NOTE:
When I first started writing 'When Justice is Served', a friend of mine had recently been raped. It was a devastating struggle for her to attempt to overcome the deep trauma that subtracted from her mental and emotional peace of mind. In her own words, she stated, "One never gets over such a horrible thing, and it leaves scars that affect one's entire life."
Statistics on rape in the United States are astounding. Every two minutes or less, someone is sexually assaulted, and approximately one-fifth of all American women become victims of sexual assault. Statistics are higher among college students. While most rapes are never reported, neither is the tragedy a rape victim suffers in the struggle to find physical, mental, and most of all, emotional healing. Some never find it.
My book, 'When Justice is Served', gives a fictional account of one young woman's dramatic struggle to overcome the devastating trauma that nearly destroyed her life. Although her story is dramatized, it nevertheless characterizes to a large degree what a rape victim must go through toward seeking balance in a disrupted life.
I hope you enjoy my book, and if you are a rape victim, I hope Nicole Duval's perseverance toward overcoming the neurosis sustained from her rape will serve as motivation for you to keep trying to find peace and happiness in your own life.
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SNYNOPSIS:
Young, gorgeous Nicole Duval has the world by the tail and an ambition so strong nothing can hamper her dreams—or so she thinks. Then, on the evening after her graduation from law school, everything changes. Sexually assaulted, stabbed, left for dead, and her attacker still on the loose, Nicole’s driving need for justice eventually leads her to taking a position as assistant district attorney.
When Nicole meets Judge Douglas Anthony Keegan, they re-establish a warm friendship from years past, and fall deeply in love with heart-warming devotion to each other. The memory of her grisly attack sparks terrible flashbacks and haunting fears that create intense pressures on their struggling relationship. Added to their growing problems is their fear surrounding the knowledge they each are adopted, were born on the same date, and may have had a twin sibling. The implication is devastating for Nicole and Douglas.
With mounting stress, the numerous challenges Nicole and
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EXCERPT:
Douglas
Then his arms became tighter, more demanding. One of his hands slid down to cup her buttock, drawing her against his hard erection.
The threat of danger kicked in like a fire alarm going off.
Nicole’s brain reverted to another time. Flashbacks played across her mind like video clips, calling up fear, horror, and revulsion imbedded like a disease in her memory from the evening following her graduation from law school when she was violently assaulted and viciously raped.
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A Review
By Richard Lee Orey, Lawyer, Court Reporter, & Author
"WHEN JUSTICE IS SERVED" is one great novel!
Bright, beautiful, law-school educated with a great future--it all falls by the wayside for young Nicole Duval as she is victimized in a vicious, brutal, life-changing sexual assault. It traumatizes her physically. It cripples her mentally and emotionally. And her aftermath memory ruptures her every attempt to resume a normal life.
Rape Trauma Syndrome is the catch-all name mental health professionals use and legions of courts accept as fact to describe its three phases: Disorganization, Reorganization and Integration. The author's insightful treatment of the subject shows us it's not all that cut-and-dried.
For man or woman, author Jeanette Cooper fashions a tale in "When Justice is Served" that makes you live through every gut-wrenching phase of Nicole Duval's brutal attack and emotional aftermath. Central to Cooper's great plotting is a wonderful, heartfelt love story like no other. Unique and compelling.
In Cooper's riveting, page-turning, totally absorbing tale of mystery and suspense is a story filled with love, longing and unrequited desires of the flesh and heart in which she plays out the volcanic-like rumble and explosion of dear Nicole's uncontrollable emotions. In vivid passages, Cooper reveals a deep personal understanding of what happens to a normal, warm-blooded woman who has been subjected to violent and tortuous sexual degradation. In shocking detail, she gives us an unforgettable play-by-play account of one of the worst sins of man against woman. You don't just read words. You feel it in your gut until it sickens you.
As Cooper's central man-woman romantic storyline develops, she demonstrates a remarkable ability to capture the raw, carnal-driven nature of a loving, passionate and viral man in his prime struggling to be a compassionate and understanding lover and committed partner-for-life of young Nicole Duval.
Cooper writes of the backroom goings-on in a metropolitan courthouse as if she were one of the in-crowd. Her expert presentation of courtroom etiquette, tactics, rules of evidence and procedure is mesmerizing. You are there. You see and feel the jurors shrinking back and folding their arms over their chest for security as the accused rapist-defendant Nicole Duval is prosecuting is ordered to openly display to the jury the telltale physical evidence of his body for all to see.
Suddenly, you feel the dynamic young district attorney's heart pounding in her chest as she discovers with a start--in the middle of trial in the courtroom, itself--that the arrogant defendant she is prosecuting is, in fact, the very same man that viciously attacked her years ago. Without warning, Nicole Duval stands face-to-face with her savage rapist. Emotionally spellbinding!
I was hooked and drawn into Cooper's "When Justice is Served" in its first few pages. As I read on, I had to tear myself away in order to take a break to eat and sleep. Everything unessential had to wait. This great story could not wait!
Jeanette Cooper's skill in developing breathtaking suspense is nothing short of masterful. "When Justice is Served" is an emotional trip to rival the best novel I have ever read. The story plot is intoxicating. I simply couldn't move from my chair as I ripped through the pages to the dramatic resolution, a totally surprising and unexpected climax that pulls at the heartstrings.
Yes, it's true: In the last few pages of this magnificent novel, I cried. What a trip!
"When Justice is Served" is an absolutely wonderful read. For most men--at least, those who are open to learning how it feels to be a traumatized rape victim struggling to get back to a normal existence--it will be an extraordinarily enlightening experience. I believe most women will understand and soulfully feel the emotional and mental journey, even if they--thank God--have not been there.
If you read nothing else this year, read, "When Justice is Served." This is one great novel!
Reviewed by Richard Lee Orey
Author, Lawyer, retired
Official Court Reporter
Author-member, Author's Den