Ein dynamischer Roman aus dem pulsierenden Manhattan über Francesca Colon, eine geschiedene Frau lateinamerikanischer Herkunft, die in die Presseabteilung der New Yorker Polizei berufen wird und sich großen Herausforderungen stellen muss.
From the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of Room 9 and Undercover comes a haunting story of corruption and murder set in the lurid underworld of New York City’s Times Square.Times Square. A grim cesspool of drugs, pornography and violent crime. It is a magnet for troubled teens who flee from broken lives only to find themselves trapped in a nightmare world of addiction and child prostitution worse than anything they could have possibly imagined. With the power of a supremely talented writer in full command of her craft, Soledad Santiago brings this world alive, along with an unforgettable cast of characters:Tough ex-nun Anna Eltern, founder of Eden House, a Hell’s Kitchen halfway house and counseling program for children with nowhere else to go. She’s a woman used to giving everything she has for her kids, but when one of them is brutally murdered and another accuses her of sexual molestation, her carefully constructed world begins to fall apart.Powerful Washington politician James R. Beardsley, new special council to the Senate Select Committee on Children and a man Anna finds dangerously attractive. Is he a knight in shining armor come to rescue Anna and the shelter, or do the series of clues Anna stumbles onto about his secret past reveal something much, much darker?Porsche, a strung out fourteen-year-old prostitute who, with Anna’s help, is just beginning to turn her life around, but who is in grave danger of becoming the fourth victim of a maniacal prostitute killer.Colin Winklesworth III, heir to one of New York’s wealthiest and most prominent families and now a homeless crack addict. He is the NYPD’s prime suspect in one of the most barbaric murder cases in the city’s history.Officer Jesus O’Shaugnessy, NYPD. He seems like one of the few people Anna can trust, but as the bodies mount, and more and more evidence points to corruption among the police themselves, she finds herself questioning all of her most-valued assumptions…With all of New York City seemingly against her, Anna finds herself sucked into a desperate race against an insane killer who will stop at nothing until he can claim one last victim… Anna Eltern.