'Abrams follows in Dan Brown’s footprint with this masterfully plotted thriller that unfolds like the ultimate chess match-bold move to bolder move with lives hanging in the balance.'-Lisa Gardner, author of Where a young law clerk finds herself embroiled in a shocking mystery plotted by one of the most preeminent judges in America.

Gripping thriller set within the halls of the U.S.

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Working Title Television’s Head of TV for the US, Katy Rozelle is overseeing the development and also serves as an executive producer. The project will be produced by Working Title Television with Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner executive producing alongside Abrams. She is repped by UTA, who brokered the deal, and The Loewenthal Company.

“I am excited about the book’s release today, and I look forward to working with Working Title Television and Universal Studio Group to bring the intriguing world of Avery Keene to television,” Abrams continued. Abrams, who will be executive producing, said that she wrote the book to “unravel a political mystery about power and secrets through the eyes of a protagonist dealing with her own demons.” Her previous romance novels and memoirs were written under the pseudonym, Selena Montgomery. “While Justice Sleeps” is the first novel published under Abrams’ real name. Plunged into an explosive role she never anticipated, Avery discovers not only that Justice Wynn had been secretly researching one of the most controversial cases before the court - a proposed merger between an American biotech company and an Indian genetics firm, which promises to unleash breathtaking results in the medical field, but also that Justice Wynn suspected a dangerous conspiracy that infiltrates the highest power corridors of Washington. She is immediately notified that Justice Wynn has left instructions for her to serve as his legal guardian and power of attorney. Per the synopsis, the two-time New York Times best-selling author’s novel follows Avery Keene, a brilliant young law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Wynn, whose descent into a coma plunges the court, and the country, into turmoil and turns Avery’s life upside down.

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