Description: As a small New England town becomes embattled in the drug war, single mother Laura Everett finds herself on the brink of love and her teenage son on the brink of disaster. To save him and his friends from potentially deadly consequences, she is forced out of her comfort zone and into action . . .
Brief description: Author, scholar, and activist Betsy Hartmann addresses critical national and global challenges in her books, articles, and public appearances. She is the author of the feminist classic Reproductive Rights and Wrong: The Global Politics of Population Control and most recently of The America Syndrome: Apocalypse, War and Our Call to Greatness. Eerily prescient, her two political thrillers, The Truth about Fire and Deadly Election, explore the threat the Far Right poses to American democracy. Betsy did her undergraduate degree at Yale University and her PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is professor emerita of Development Studies at Hampshire College, where she taught for twenty-eight years. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. For more on Betsy, visit http: //betsyhartmann.com.
Review Quotes: "Betsy Hartmann's novel is a beautiful literary creation with a setting that feels like a character in its own right. The setting is so finely drawn that readers can feel the town, visualize its alleys, and quickly follow its rhythm. The characters are multidimensional, each of them with a haunting background . . . Intimacy, love, addiction, and redemption are cleverly developed themes in this thrilling novel."--Readers' Favorite