Melanie Starks and her seventeen-year-old son, Charlie, have been running one con job or another for as long as she can remember.
Worried about Charlie, though, Melanie is ready to start over. Then her brother, Jared, reappears in her life. Released on a technicality, Jared Barnett is just out of prison and feeling more invincible than ever. He has the perfect plan to rob a local Nebraska bank, but he needs Melanie's and Charlie's help.
Feeling that she owes the brother who saved her from an unspeakably violent childhood, Melanie agrees to Jared's plan. But within seconds, shots are fired and Jared and Charlie run out of the bank. They are empty-handed and four people are dead.
When they refuse to tell her what happened in those few desperate moments, Melanie realizes her brother and son have formed a silent bond. And now they are all on the run from the police, taking a hostage with them and willing to do anything to survive.
- ISBN10 0778321894
- ISBN13 9780778321897
- Publish Date 15 October 2004 (first published 1 July 2004)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 December 2007
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Mira Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk