Guilt Study Guide

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Mark Dooher is a successful lawyer at the head of an equally successful San Francisco law firm. He has a devoted wife, Sheila, and a devoted friend, Wes Farrell. Mark controls his life with an iron hand, taking what he wants but never making anyone realize his self-centered attitude. When Mark sees one of the junior lawyers, Joe Avery, with a beautiful woman, he immediately begins planning a way to have the woman for his own. The woman, Christina, believes Mark's cover of the successful businessman and devoted friend and husband. Christina begins confiding in Mark, trusting his friendship implicitly from their first meeting. Christina volunteers at the Rape Crisis Counseling Center and becomes friends with her boss, Samantha. Known as "Sam" to her friends, she meets—quite by chance—Wes Farrell. The two immediately connect but Sam is furious when she learns that Wes is the attorney successfully defending a man...
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