Southern lights :
Steel, Danielle.
Southern lights : a novel / - 1st ed. - New York : Delacorte Press, c2009. - 326 p. ; 25 cm.
Eleven years ago Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband's betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, she's made a name for herself as a top prosecutor while juggling her role as devoted single mom to a teenage daughter. But everything changes when Alexa is handed her latest case: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Facing a high-stakes trial, her private life thrown in turmoil by a series of threatening letters, she is forced to send her daughter back to the very place she swore she would never return to: the place where her marriage ended in heartbreak.
0385340281 (acidfree paper) 9780385340281 (acidfree paper)
2009020768
Public prosecutors--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
Divorced women--Fiction.
Single mothers--Fiction.
Trials (Murder)--Fiction.
Serial murderers--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Rich people--South Carolina--Charleston--Fiction.
PS3569.T33828 / S65 2009
813/.54
Southern lights : a novel / - 1st ed. - New York : Delacorte Press, c2009. - 326 p. ; 25 cm.
Eleven years ago Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband's betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, she's made a name for herself as a top prosecutor while juggling her role as devoted single mom to a teenage daughter. But everything changes when Alexa is handed her latest case: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Facing a high-stakes trial, her private life thrown in turmoil by a series of threatening letters, she is forced to send her daughter back to the very place she swore she would never return to: the place where her marriage ended in heartbreak.
0385340281 (acidfree paper) 9780385340281 (acidfree paper)
2009020768
Public prosecutors--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
Divorced women--Fiction.
Single mothers--Fiction.
Trials (Murder)--Fiction.
Serial murderers--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Rich people--South Carolina--Charleston--Fiction.
PS3569.T33828 / S65 2009
813/.54