Life has a way of bringing difficult questions into the most carefully arranged plans. In Ana Braunstein’s four-book This Case and My Life series, a successful attorney discovers how deeply ambition, love, and family responsibilities can influence one another.
Through Chris Roberts and the people closest to him, Ana creates an evolving story filled with romance, humor, emotional complications, and opportunities to begin again.
When a Carefully Planned Life Gets Complicated
Chris understands the power of preparation. He’s a respected attorney who knows how to build an argument, anticipate challenges, and pursue a favorable outcome. That confidence shapes his approach to relationships, too. He believes he can keep his responsibilities, private concerns, and personal connections neatly organized.
Then the boundaries begin to shift.
Across the series, Chris, Kathy, Bridget, and Stephanie find themselves drawn into circumstances that test trust and expose unfinished emotional business. Decisions carry consequences, and familiar relationships develop in unexpected directions. Each character faces questions about loyalty, forgiveness, and the future they hope to build.
The appeal lies in these recognizable pressures. Career demands consume time. Old memories return. A growing family changes everyday priorities. Ana brings those experiences together through domestic drama and moments of comedy, giving readers several emotional threads to follow as the characters’ lives unfold.
Four Books, an Expanding Circle of Relationships
This Case and My Life
The opening novel introduces Chris at a moment when a pivotal legal case begins affecting his personal world. Professional ambition and an unexpected emotional awakening place pressure on the certainty he’s relied upon.
His usual strategies offer limited guidance as he confronts decisions involving love and connection. This romantic comedy-drama establishes the series’ central concern: how someone accustomed to directing outcomes responds when life requires emotional openness. The first book has received a Literary Titan Award.
This Case And My Life: A Novel Sequel Two
In the second installment, Chris has built a respected New York City law firm, found love again, and begun preparing for fatherhood. His future carries genuine promise.
A business trip to Chicago brings a chance encounter with someone from his past. Memories resurface as changes at work, responsibilities at home, and secrets complicate his efforts to maintain balance. Bridget notices unanswered questions and subtle changes between them. Their preparations for a growing family take place alongside mounting concerns about trust.
The sequel explores second chances and personal growth through choices whose significance becomes clearer over time.
This Case and My Life: A Walk in The Park – Sequel Three
The third book follows Chris as he quietly searches for a family home while Bridget prepares for their first child. An unexpected friendship develops between Bridget and Stephanie, who once occupied an important place in Chris’s life.
Their growing connection brings the past closer to the present. Kindness, forgiveness, and the willingness to move forward shape this chapter, with warmth and humor accompanying its emotional turns. Readers who enjoy contemporary family drama and hopeful relationship stories have plenty to explore here.
This Case and My Life: Christmas is Here – Sequel Four
Chris and Bridget begin life in Connecticut with their baby daughter, Helen. An intimate wedding, a beautiful home, and their first Christmas together bring happiness and fresh possibilities.
Chris’s Manhattan career soon introduces practical challenges. Staying in New York during the workweek appears manageable, yet the arrangement places new demands on their marriage and parenting routines.
Meanwhile, Kathy and Stephanie develop a friendship. Old secrets emerge, professional boundaries shift, and a career offer prompts Kathy to examine success, loyalty, and belonging. The fourth installment continues the series’ interest in how everyday arrangements affect emotional closeness.
About the Author
Ana is an award-winning author, screenwriter, filmmaker, actress, and storyteller. Her interest in writing and performing began during childhood, when she shared stories with her mother, siblings, and friends. As a teenager, she participated in plays at schools, churches, and within her community.
Her parents’ enthusiasm for the arts and reading helped nurture that creative foundation. Recognition for her films at national and international festivals encouraged her return to writing. Today, Ana approaches books and filmmaking as connected ways to bring emotionally driven stories to an audience.
A Story That Keeps Moving Forward
Available in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover editions, the complete series is intended to be read in order. Across four novels, Ana invites readers to follow a changing circle of relationships where healing takes time, choices matter, and each new chapter brings room for growth.