Hung

A jury is already under threat in this legal thriller: "Juror 4 will not finish." Five weeks later, Dr. Lena Castellan enters New York's largest corporate-fraud trial in Southern District history, carrying a warning found in Vivian Cade's safe.

Lena can read twelve strangers in four seconds. As a jury consultant, she studies the room, weighs its pressures, advises the prosecutor. She cannot speak to a juror or signal one. The hidden network called the Venire has used her own model to shape verdicts; now it has chosen this trial.

Calder Pharmaceuticals sold Veralox as a non-opioid painkiller. Prosecutors say its executives buried internal data linking the drug to cardiac events, then misled regulators. The case turns on disputed evidence, witness testimony, plus what the company knew about 412 deaths.

Then a juror dies of a drug he never took. The courtroom becomes the scene of a second mystery, while the trial continues under the shadow of a conspiracy that reaches beyond the defendants.

In Hung, Book 3 of The Jury Consultant Series, Lena faces a legal battle where every move carries consequences. The prosecution must build its case in public, as the Venire works unseen to influence the jury. The trial's stakes reach past two defendants: the evidence must survive scrutiny, while the jurors must remain free to decide.

Lena must recognize the Venire's moves without giving it a path to hers. She cannot intervene with the people whose decision matters most. When the jury room itself may be under pressure, can twelve strangers still reach a just verdict?