Cassandra Robbins and her husband John, reunited after twenty years, are settling into their life together when a young woman calls John out of the blue, claiming to be his daughter. She’s been arrested at the Charlotte airport for smuggling a kilo of fentanyl-laced cocaine. Their response, a simple act of kindness, leads to terrible consequences for them when the girl disappears.
The life Cass and John are rebuilding, their marriage, both their careers are in peril as they work to locate the young woman who claims to be John’s daughter and learn the truth about her plummet into their lives.
Biographical Information Author Reita Pendry overcame years of paralyzing stage fright to become a criminal defense attorney. Over the course of a thirty-plus year career, she tried many cases to juries in Washington, DC and North Carolina. Her legal experience and her passion for justice animate her Mercy Johnson legal mystery series and this new series with Cassandra Robbins as the protagonist. Robbins is a criminal defense attorney and a recovering alcoholic. Although the author is not herself an alcoholic or addict, she draws on the painful struggles of beloved family members to craft this new series. Courage, inspiration and hope are the bedrock qualities of Cassandra’s journey. Like Cassandra, the author is accompanied on her journey by family, colleagues and friends, and a house full of rescue animals.