Book Description:
One cold November night when Kat Kominski was fifteen years old, she and some friends held up a convenience store. In the heat of the moment, one of the others shot and killed an off duty cop moonlighting as a security guard. Kat and her pals fled the scene in a panic, and no one was caught.<br><br>Thirteen years later, Kat now Kate White has built a new life for herself. Now a single mom with a nine year old son, she works as a prosecutor in the Philadelphia DA s office. But her dark past returns to haunt her when she walks into court one day and has a devastating encounter with a prisoner, Mario Castellanos, one of her companions from that terrible night.<br><br>Hardcore criminal Mario is facing a possible sentence of twenty years. He lets Kate know that he is counting on her, his old friend turned prosecutor, to make sure he goes free instead. If Kate doesn t do what he wants, he ll claim she was the one who killed the off duty cop.<br><br>Kate is in a bind: If the truth about her past gets out, she stands to lose everything, including her son. But she can t do what Mario wants, either. As Mario ups his demands, blackmailing and terrorizing her, she is forced to turn for protection to a sexy homicide detective, Tom Braga, who suspects her of something. The two clash repeatedly as Tom keeps digging into her past, trying to learn the truth.<br><br>Then another, far more menacing, threat rears its head, and Kate realizes that her life and her son s are in terrible danger. Frantic, she sees that she has nowhere to turn. Except, maybe, to Tom .
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