01855cam a2200373 a 4500 15747274 OSt 20160606154207.0 090521s2009 nyu 000 1 eng 2009020768 0385340281 (acidfree paper) 978-0385340281 (acidfree paper) (OCoLC)ocn303041974 DLC PUL PUL n-us-ny n-us-sc PS 3569 .T33828S65 2009 813/.54 22 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. 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. 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 32130 32130 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC PUEA PUEA GEN 2016-05-24 4500.00 2016-13815 4 PS3569.T33828 S65 2009 2016-0809 2021-04-09 00:00:00 2021-04-01 C1 2016-05-24 BK