Summary

The Prologue was told from the perspective of Sharanda Jones, one of the protagonists in A Knock at Midnight. Sharanda parked her car outside of a Dallas courthouse in the late summer and entered for the last day of her trial. Sharanda was confident that she would be acquitted for her accused crime—which was not yet specified—due to the “obvious lies from the witnesses and the sympathetic glances of the jurors.” (4). As she listened to the prosecutor and her defense attorney give closing arguments, Sharanda thought about the parts of her life that she wanted to return to once the trial was finally over—especially working at her restaurant Cooking on Lamar and spending time with her eight-year-old daughter Clenesha. Her attorney stated to her that he too thought she would be fully acquitted, but he was worried about the conspiracy charge...