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The Law of Karma
WE ALL HAVE SECRETS.
BUT SOMETIMES SECRETS HAVE US.
The award-winning author of Anybody's Daughter is back with a gripping tale of passion, deceit, and murder.
Miles Slade looks every bit the successful lawyer, but his swanky office and designer suits hide some desperate truths. A flailing law practice. Massive debt. A dying sister in need of expensive care. Miles is willing to do just about anything—to cross any line—to raise the cash he urgently needs.
Then he meets Nicole Paxton. Beautiful, sophisticated, and unlike any woman he’s ever known. Like Miles, Nicole has her own secrets. She ignites a passion in Miles so intense, he’s ready to give up his secret life. But before he’s able to do so, both he and Nicole become entangled in a new web of deception—one that involves murder.
Amid the suspicions, lies, and overpowering desires, is there still a chance that love can conquer all?
Pamela Samuels Young is an attorney and author of multiple legal thrillers. Her novel, Anybody’s Daughter, won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Fiction. A former television news writer, Pamela is a longtime member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America. She lives in the Los Angeles area. Visit Pamela’s website at www.pamelasamuelsyoung.com.
The award-winning author of Anybody's Daughter is back with a gripping tale of passion, deceit, and murder.
Miles Slade looks every bit the successful lawyer, but his swanky office and designer suits hide some desperate truths. A flailing law practice. Massive debt. A dying sister in need of expensive care. Miles is willing to do just about anything—to cross any line—to raise the cash he urgently needs.
Then he meets Nicole Paxton. Beautiful, sophisticated, and unlike any woman he’s ever known. Like Miles, Nicole has her own secrets. She ignites a passion in Miles so intense, he’s ready to give up his secret life. But before he’s able to do so, both he and Nicole become entangled in a new web of deception—one that involves murder.
Amid the suspicions, lies, and overpowering desires, is there still a chance that love can conquer all?
Pamela Samuels Young is an attorney and author of multiple legal thrillers. Her novel, Anybody’s Daughter, won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Fiction. A former television news writer, Pamela is a longtime member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America. She lives in the Los Angeles area. Visit Pamela’s website at www.pamelasamuelsyoung.com.
330 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 11, 2023
About the author
Pamela Samuels Young
29 books473 followersAward-winning author and attorney Pamela Samuels Young writes mysteries that matter. Dubbed “John Grisham with a sister’s twist” by one reviewer, Pamela’s fast-paced novels tackle important social issues.
Her most recent legal thriller, Failure to Protect, takes on the bullying epidemic and its devastating aftermath. Pamela won the prestigious NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Fiction for her thriller Anybody’s Daughter, which provides a realistic look inside the world of child sex trafficking. Her courtroom drama Abuse of Discretion centers around a troubling teen sexting case. #Anybody’s Daughter and #Abuse of Discretion are young adult editions of the two books. A young adult version of Failure to Protect is forthcoming.
Pamela also writes erotically sassy romantic suspense under the pen name Sassy Sinclair. A natural hair enthusiast, Pamela writes about her own empowering natural hair journey in Kinky Coily: A Natural Hair Resource Guide.
Prior to retiring from the practice of law to write full time, Pamela worked as Managing Counsel for Toyota specializing in labor and employment law. A former journalist, she spent several years as a television news writer and associate producer in Detroit and Los Angeles. Pamela received her bachelor’s degree from USC and also earned graduate degrees from Northwestern University and UC Berkeley School of Law. The Compton native is a frequent speaker on the topics of sex trafficking, bullying, online safety, fiction writing, self-empowerment, and pursuing your passion.
Pamela loves connecting with her fans! To invite her to a speaking engage or a book club meeting via Skype, Facebook Live, FaceTime, Zoom, speakerphone or in person, email her at authorpamelasamuelsyoung@gmail.com. To read excerpts of Pamela’s books, visit her websites at www.pamelasamuelsyoung.com and www.sassysinclair.com .
Her most recent legal thriller, Failure to Protect, takes on the bullying epidemic and its devastating aftermath. Pamela won the prestigious NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Fiction for her thriller Anybody’s Daughter, which provides a realistic look inside the world of child sex trafficking. Her courtroom drama Abuse of Discretion centers around a troubling teen sexting case. #Anybody’s Daughter and #Abuse of Discretion are young adult editions of the two books. A young adult version of Failure to Protect is forthcoming.
Pamela also writes erotically sassy romantic suspense under the pen name Sassy Sinclair. A natural hair enthusiast, Pamela writes about her own empowering natural hair journey in Kinky Coily: A Natural Hair Resource Guide.
Prior to retiring from the practice of law to write full time, Pamela worked as Managing Counsel for Toyota specializing in labor and employment law. A former journalist, she spent several years as a television news writer and associate producer in Detroit and Los Angeles. Pamela received her bachelor’s degree from USC and also earned graduate degrees from Northwestern University and UC Berkeley School of Law. The Compton native is a frequent speaker on the topics of sex trafficking, bullying, online safety, fiction writing, self-empowerment, and pursuing your passion.
Pamela loves connecting with her fans! To invite her to a speaking engage or a book club meeting via Skype, Facebook Live, FaceTime, Zoom, speakerphone or in person, email her at authorpamelasamuelsyoung@gmail.com. To read excerpts of Pamela’s books, visit her websites at www.pamelasamuelsyoung.com and www.sassysinclair.com .
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July 25, 2024
My girl, Pamela Samuels Young, has done it again! I stumbled across her latest by total accident. Here I was thinking I had read all her legal novels, until this one popped out before my very eyes. What a happy surprise!!
Miles Slade was a starving lawyer trying to make his way in the legal world. Although he was successful sometimes, it was hard to pay the bills and get clients to keep him going. When you factor in he had a very ill sister who was like a mother to him dying, he wasn’t sure which way was up and how he’d plan to live the rest of his life without his big sis to help him through.
The hospital was threatening to throw her out, even though they understood the serious nature Miles’ sister was in, he had to come up with a ton of money to put his sister in a permanent facility that specialized in taking care of her. It was the least he could do since she was always there for him when they were growing up. Miles had a horrible dilemma. How was he supposed to pay for his sister’s mountain of medical debt and still survive too?
As luck would have it, a friend of Miles had reached out to him in the past about doing a side hustle. Miles had turned his friend down many times before, but given his grave circumstances, he needed to, at least, entertain whatever his friend had to say. Miles gave Carlos a call and they had a conversation.
When Miles learned what he was required to do, even though he was repulsed, his sister’s medical debt played in his mind like a movie reel. He had no choice but to sign up and make his paper. While Miles was attending the country club, which came as a perk with his newfound side hustle, he ran into one of the most beautiful women he had ever seen. Her name was Nicole. They struck up a conversation and Miles was taken by Nicole’s beauty and her nature. They were vibin' and hit it off and all he wanted to do was be with this woman for the rest of his life. Problem was she was married.
Even though they both knew they shouldn’t be together, cupid had other ideas. Soon they were meeting at the club all the time. That is, until one night they hung out, Nicole was confronted by the police to inform her, her husband had been murdered. Hot damn! We got a legal drama in the midst! Yasss! Of course, readers, you must read the novel to find out the rest.
Wow! PSY never lets me down—not ever! This woman can write. She always places her readers front and center. There’s never a dull moment and she keeps the story flowing. You want to keep reading to find out what it going to happen next. I’m happy to say I figured some of the story out, but surprisingly, she managed to throw a little curve ball in there. Overall, this was a damn good story. I gobbled it up entirely too fast, but I do this was all PSY’s books.
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Miles Slade was a starving lawyer trying to make his way in the legal world. Although he was successful sometimes, it was hard to pay the bills and get clients to keep him going. When you factor in he had a very ill sister who was like a mother to him dying, he wasn’t sure which way was up and how he’d plan to live the rest of his life without his big sis to help him through.
The hospital was threatening to throw her out, even though they understood the serious nature Miles’ sister was in, he had to come up with a ton of money to put his sister in a permanent facility that specialized in taking care of her. It was the least he could do since she was always there for him when they were growing up. Miles had a horrible dilemma. How was he supposed to pay for his sister’s mountain of medical debt and still survive too?
As luck would have it, a friend of Miles had reached out to him in the past about doing a side hustle. Miles had turned his friend down many times before, but given his grave circumstances, he needed to, at least, entertain whatever his friend had to say. Miles gave Carlos a call and they had a conversation.
When Miles learned what he was required to do, even though he was repulsed, his sister’s medical debt played in his mind like a movie reel. He had no choice but to sign up and make his paper. While Miles was attending the country club, which came as a perk with his newfound side hustle, he ran into one of the most beautiful women he had ever seen. Her name was Nicole. They struck up a conversation and Miles was taken by Nicole’s beauty and her nature. They were vibin' and hit it off and all he wanted to do was be with this woman for the rest of his life. Problem was she was married.
Even though they both knew they shouldn’t be together, cupid had other ideas. Soon they were meeting at the club all the time. That is, until one night they hung out, Nicole was confronted by the police to inform her, her husband had been murdered. Hot damn! We got a legal drama in the midst! Yasss! Of course, readers, you must read the novel to find out the rest.
Wow! PSY never lets me down—not ever! This woman can write. She always places her readers front and center. There’s never a dull moment and she keeps the story flowing. You want to keep reading to find out what it going to happen next. I’m happy to say I figured some of the story out, but surprisingly, she managed to throw a little curve ball in there. Overall, this was a damn good story. I gobbled it up entirely too fast, but I do this was all PSY’s books.
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January 24, 2026
When I purchased this book last year, I started in a few pages and then got sidetracked. Wow, when life settled down after the holidays I picked it up again and really enjoyed the read! Pamela knocked this one out the park. The story kept me engaged even when I suspected who done it! All the characters had flaws in one way or another and their back stories allowed you to have an understanding behind their behaviors. I hope my bookclub will want to read this book, Im sure they will since we’ve read many of Pamela’s books over the years.
February 12, 2026
This was a crazy suspense story. Lawyer Miles, a lawyer with his private practice, was caught up in debt. Nicole was a rich but unhappy trophy wife. Together their secret affair began to unravel stitch by stitch. And her husband ends up dead! This book was a great whodunit by author Pamela Samuels Young, one of my favorites.
Read 2/12/2026.
Read 2/12/2026.
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October 7, 2026
Good but not her best.
I couldn’t believe the plot twist. This book dragged for me but was still good. I dread when there’s a big secret that has to come out. Compared to the other books I’ve read from her I give this ⭐️⭐️⭐️. There was much action in this story or investing. I was looking forward to that.
I couldn’t believe the plot twist. This book dragged for me but was still good. I dread when there’s a big secret that has to come out. Compared to the other books I’ve read from her I give this ⭐️⭐️⭐️. There was much action in this story or investing. I was looking forward to that.
January 12, 2024
Intriguing
This story had me guessing the entire book. The plot was so well written that I never saw it coming. The female and male lead were greatly flawed, but the things that motivated them to be that way were real. Page turner for sure!
This story had me guessing the entire book. The plot was so well written that I never saw it coming. The female and male lead were greatly flawed, but the things that motivated them to be that way were real. Page turner for sure!
February 15, 2024
This book is amazing. Trying to figure out who killed Ike is a rollercoaster. I have read a lot of books by PSY and this one is the best one. I hope there will be a part two because I want to know more about Miles and Deliah.
July 26, 2024
2 Wrongs Will Make It Right
There were a lot of detectives in this story - that was a plus in moving the narrative along. The store is a L. A. Thriller in the middle of a chiller of how cold one can be!!!!!
There were a lot of detectives in this story - that was a plus in moving the narrative along. The store is a L. A. Thriller in the middle of a chiller of how cold one can be!!!!!
September 27, 2024
A great pager
This is not a spoiler. This is awesome story of love and suspense. It will draw in. It’s definitely worth the read. I have audible vision. The narrators were awesome.
This is not a spoiler. This is awesome story of love and suspense. It will draw in. It’s definitely worth the read. I have audible vision. The narrators were awesome.
January 21, 2024
Great Read
This was a good read for our bookclub. Everyone enjoyed reading it. It had some of everything and kept you guessing. The author did a great job at keeping my attention.
This was a good read for our bookclub. Everyone enjoyed reading it. It had some of everything and kept you guessing. The author did a great job at keeping my attention.
February 17, 2024
Love this author. Wasn't expecting the twist, but enjoyed it nonetheless. I thought I knew, until I didn't 🤣👍🏾👍🏾
March 13, 2024
The Law of Karma
I really enjoyed this story.It was a page turner.I thought I knew who killed Ike. I was wrong and glad I was.Another great job by Ms Young.
I really enjoyed this story.It was a page turner.I thought I knew who killed Ike. I was wrong and glad I was.Another great job by Ms Young.
March 7, 2025
A nice quick read to pass the time. I gave it 3 stars because the storyline was very predictable at times and I needed more character development on some of the characters
January 15, 2026
Page Turner
She never disappoints—this book is a definite page-turner from start to finish. The story keeps you hooked, and the suspense never lets up. You won’t be disappointed.
She never disappoints—this book is a definite page-turner from start to finish. The story keeps you hooked, and the suspense never lets up. You won’t be disappointed.
January 4, 2024
Secrets and lies…
Relationships that are built on secrets and lies are doomed to fail. This story was about love, betrayal and redemption.
I love a good Whodunit and this one had me guessing until the end. I was surprised! I enjoyed when certain layers were peeled back to expose what was once hidden. Great job!
Relationships that are built on secrets and lies are doomed to fail. This story was about love, betrayal and redemption.
I love a good Whodunit and this one had me guessing until the end. I was surprised! I enjoyed when certain layers were peeled back to expose what was once hidden. Great job!
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