Jailbird

by Rebecca Lewis

"Look you crazy, worthless, nothing of a mother. You're sitting in here safe and sound, and we're out here being threatened by this drug dealer. You don't even care that this two-bit hustler is threatening us. All you care about is your stinkin' nest egg for when you get out. What kind of a mother are you? You even get angry when a nice guy protects me so I can feel safe coming down here to the jail to visit you. You're not my mom. You're some self-centered, perverted druggie who doesn't care about anything but herself. I wish you had died and not dad. I hate you!"
Marla Evans is spiraling over the death of her Army Ranger husband in Afghanistan. Running from her grief, she begins to run afoul of the law, her kids, and a vengeful drug lord's enforcer. She wants no help from Army Ranger, Mac Barelli, her husband's friend and her new potential love interest, or from no-nonsense Police Sergeant Angie Granger. Now jailhouse religion makes her believe she can bargain with God and keep the items she's stolen from Devon Lawson, a drug lord and her ex-lover. Her children are in danger. Will Marla's haphazard faith get everyone around her killed? Jailbird is a realistic ride into the dark side of a woman's struggle with her grief that takes her and those around her into places they don't want to go.

244 pages, Paperback

First published July 22, 2014