Southern Lights. Danielle Steel. 2009.

The rage of a hardened criminal... and the tender bond between a mother and daughter

Eleven years have passed since Alexa Hamilton left Charleston, fleeing the pain of her husband's betrayal and the cruelty of his wealthy southern family. Now an assistant D.A., she's been handed the kind of case that makes careers: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. But threatening letters throw her private life into sudden turmoil.

The letters are addressed to Alexa's beautiful seventeen-year-old daughter, Savannah, whom Alexa has raised alone since her divorce.

Alexa is certain that Quentin is behind the letters - and that they are too dangerous to ignore. She has to make the tough choice of sending her daughter back to the very place where Alexa swore she would never return, to her ex-husband's world of southern tradition... and painful betrayal.

As a family's wounds are exposed and the healing begins, Alexa and Savannah will come together again - strengthened by the challenges they have faced.