Crashing Fates

Crashing Fates is the fifth book of the Quiet After the Hurricane series. The overall plot of the book involves a serial killer from nine years prior who kills a series of people that all tie back to a mysterious car crash from the past of the new characters, Thomas Lust, Sophie Raine, and Kyo Raine

1) The Waterside Turnabout
Thomas Lust decides to take on his first case: defending young boy Anton Burke from the charge of murder. With the help of legal assistant Chrysalis Starr, Thomas faces off against Polly Bloom. At the close of the case, the group discovers that the culprit is none other than a famed serial killer known as the Gentleman Murderer.

2) Turnabout Forgeries
Thomas decides on joining Morix Law Offices not long after case one. But once he arrives, he meets Sophie Raine, who would like Thomas and Niamh Tenniswood to defend her older sister, Kyo. Visiting the mansion of Abilene and Anthony Umber, it is once again exposed that the culprit is no ordinary person.

3) The Comedic Turnabout
A murder occurs at a local pub, dragging Thomas, Sophie, Kyo, and Lily Shield out of the agency to take care of it. They defend dancer Ryoko Chinami, though they cross paths with the pub's wild and crazy cast. Thanks to Chrysalis' side investigation into the comedian, she discovers that the pub has a darker secret than expected...

4) The Treacherous Turnabout
Down at the courthouse, Chrysalis is attacked by who people think is yet another serial killer. Thomas defends Chrysalis' good friend, Nevada Wood, in court the next day. Unbeknownst to everyone else, this wasn't just an ordinary attempted murder, but rather a dark action by the mastermind to use as blackmail.

5) Turnabout Recollections
Ryoko is once again arrested, this time for killing her twin brother. Thomas and the Raine sisters defend her. Polly and Chrysalis discover that things are amiss at the agency and that the mastermind might be closer than they thought through a certain individual: none other than Cotoli Morix.

Main Characters
-Thomas Lust-The protagonist as the story. New to Morix Law Offices, Thomas takes on the cases that come his way, not knowing that he has deeper links to every single one. Despite this, he wins every single case when it hits court.

-Sophie Raine-The younger out of the two Raine 'sisters'. Sophie assists Thomas throughout the duration of the book by using her special power to see if evidence is real or not. Later in the book, it is revealed that she is in fact not related to Kyo by sisterhood thanks to the Gentleman Murderer.

-Kyo Raine-The eldest of the Raine 'sisters'. Kyo takes the place of the defendant in the second case, though she helps out Thomas the rest of the cases by dropping subtle hints that relate everything to the Gentleman Murderer, as she knows much more about him than she lets on.

-Sora Lin-A prosecutor in the local district and the main rival to Thomas. She only appears in the investigation phases of cases due to her alter ego, Tora, appearing when she steps into a courtroom. Sora acts rather friendly to Thomas in the investigation as opposed to what other prosecutors do.

-Tora Yin-Sora's alter ego, a deceased prosecutor who is channeled when Sora steps into court. Tora is more often shown in this story, as she is the only one out of the trio who can prosecute cases in court due to occupation or mental disputes with Sora and Jay Yang.

-Cotoli Morix-The owner of Morix Law offices. In the third case, he is abducted by Edgar Lust, so Cotoli is only truly seen beforehand in the second case where he hires Thomas to be a new member at the agency. In the end, he is the decisive witness to showing that the Gentleman Murderer is closer than expected.

-Polly Bloom-The rival prosecutor in the first case of the story as well as Cotoli's girlfriend. In the end, she helps solve the mystery behind 'Cotoli's' odd behavior from cases three, four, and five. She is also the adopted mother of Anton.

-Anton Burke-Polly's adopted son. In the first case, he ends up in the defendant's chair after he finds a body at the local swimming pool. He gets off the hook thanks to Thomas and Chrysalis. He returns in the final to visit Cotoli in the hospital.

-Chrysalis Starr-Cotoli's younger half sister. In the first case, she helps out Thomas in defending Anton. In case four, she plays the part of the victim thanks to the Gentleman Murderer. During the final case, she finds the real Cotoli in the agency's cellar, where she helps him receive medical help after his torture.

-Nevada Wood-

-Niamh Tenniswood-

-Yuri Rinko-

-Lily Shield-

-Michiko Kuroda-

-Abilene Umber-

-Anthony Umber-

-Toby Erikson-

-Vera Stanhope-

-Mukuro Erikson-

-Aiden Healy-

-Edgar Lust-

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Summary
A new lawyer has shown up at the doorway of Morix Law Offices: Thomas Lust. His special ability could provide some help to the attorneys, which means analyzing the past of anybody through their speech patterns. Assisted by his friends, sisters Kyo and Sophie Raine (who can pick out forged evidence), Thomas is hoping to uncover the truth behind the cases at hand, which all link back to a mysterious car crash that took place nine years prior as well as the uncaught culprit who calls himself a Gentleman Murderer. Among many other things, Thomas' cases also tie into the cryptic final survivor. Nothing makes sense to Thomas anymore, but he presses on.

Because there are crashing fates all around him, but there also isn't any stopping it.