DECENT PEOPLE. DESPERATE MEASURES.
The folks of remote, mountainous Trout Run, New York, are shocked when Mary Pat Sheehan's body is found in her crashed car. They're even more stunned when an autopsy reveals it wasn't the crash that killed her -- but complications from childbirth. No one even knew that cheerful, reliable, and unmarried Mary Pat was pregnant. In a town where everyone knows everyone's business, how did she hide her pregnancy? Where is her baby? And who is the father?
These daunting questions lead Police Chief Frank Bennett into the shadowy world of black market adoption scams, where panicked young women and desperate, childless couples play a high-stakes game. to prevent another tragedy, Frank must unravel a tangle of family secrets and unlikely alliances. But stepping closer to the truth puts Frank squarely in a killer's sights. Because when greed and love both fuel the fire, everyone gets burned.
- ISBN10 0743489160
- ISBN13 9780743489164
- Publish Date 1 June 2004 (first published March 2004)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 September 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Simon & Schuster
- Imprint Pocket Books
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 336
- Language English