01652cam a2200325 a 450000100090000000300040000900500170001300800410003001000170007102000320008802000360012003500240015604000180018004300210019805000290021908200160024810000210026424500310028525000120031626000410032830000210036952006660039065000610105665000290111765000290114665000300117565000310120565000360123665000540127215747274OSt20160606154207.0090521s2009    nyu           000 1 eng    a  2009020768  a0385340281 (acidfree paper)  a978-0385340281 (acidfree paper)  a(OCoLC)ocn303041974  aDLCcPULdPUL  an-us-nyan-us-sc00aPS 3569b.T33828S65 200900a813/.542221 aSteel, Danielle.10aSouthern lights:bA novel.  a1st ed.  aNew York :bDelacorte Press,cc2009.  a326 p. ;c25 cm.  aEleven 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. 0aPublic prosecutorszNew York (State)zNew YorkvFiction. 0aDivorced womenvFiction. 0aSingle mothersvFiction. 0aTrials (Murder)vFiction. 0aSerial murderersvFiction. 0aMothers and daughtersvFiction. 0aRich peoplezSouth CarolinazCharlestonvFiction.