Razor-sharp and lightning-fast, this electrifying story - the prequel to The Good Daughter - from the #1 international bestselling author will leave you breathless.
Protecting someone always comes at a cost.At the age of thirteen, Charlie Quinns childhood came to an abrupt and devastating end. Two men, with a grudge against her lawyer father, broke into her homeand after that shocking night, Charlies world was never the same.Now a lawyer herself, Charlie has made it her mission to defend those with no one else to turn to. So when Flora Faulkner, a motherless teen, begs for help, Charlie is reminded of her own past, and is powerless to say no.But honor-student Flora is in far deeper trouble than Charlie could ever have anticipated. Soon she must ask herself: How far should she go to protect her client? And can she truly believe everything she is being told?
Karin Slaughter is one of the world’s most popular storytellers. Published in 120 countries with more than 40 million copies sold across the globe, her novels have all been Sunday Times bestsellers. Slaughter lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and is the founder of the Save the Libraries project—a nonprofit organization established to support libraries and library programming. Her standalone novel Pieces of Her is now a Netflix series, and the Grant County and Will Trent series are in development for television.
