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Judge Rosemarie Aquilina made headlines with her unprecedented judicial decisions during the Nassar sentencing hearing, but in a life filled with unconventional choices and bold decisions, this was only one of her many extraordinary moments. In this empowering memoir, Judge Aquilina finally shares her own deeply personal story.

What happens to all of the letters that kids send to Santa Claus through the US mail? In Detroit, Michigan, many of them end up in the hands of Chris Archer, a postal worker who spends his free time designing computer games and uses the children’s wish lists to help detect trends in the toy market. No harm done until Chris’ brother, Nick Archer, the religiously obsessed, dishonorably discharged fighter pilot and victim of childhood abuse, discovers them and finds out who’s really been naughty and who’s been nice.

Arrested by detectives for murder of the Chief Judge, former judge Nicoletta Kikkra learns there isn’t any problem that can’t be solved out of her recently opened Ratification Hair Salon, Spa & Café. Nicoletta’s cowboy boots and every day is wedding hair spray day sense of humor keeps everyone around her in good spirits even when 12 inexplicable bank accounts totaling 1.2 million dollars are discovered in her name - money that detectives pinpoint as her motive to kill.

Join Judge Rosemarie Aquilina and Shari Botwin, LCSW for meaningful conversations aimed at empowerment, healing and knowledge. They tackle varying topics that include issues surrounding trauma, pain, and parenting. These important and raw conversations will instill hope, insight, coping strategies, how to maneuver the law, and when to ask for help. Most important, how to be the hero in your own story. Judge Aquilina is the author of "Just Watch Me." Shari Botwin, LCSW author of "Thriving After Trauma: Stories of Living and Healing" counsels patients in recovery from all types of trauma.

Young, naive, Samantha Armstrong, can never go back to her pampered life style after being brutally raped by Greg Maston, the accountant for her father’s law firm and close family friend. Fearing she would taint her family’s reputation and disappoint her parents, she chooses not to report the sexual assault. After she trusts Skyler Marks to help her, he takes advantage of her fragile state of mind when she tries to move forward without him to heal and forget her pain. Skyler Marks, the young bright attorney in her father’s law firm, blackmails and stalks her.